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MARIETTA COLLEGE 



WAR 0F SECESSION, 



1861 — 1865, 




MARIETTA COLLEGE 



WAR OF SECESSION, 



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1861 186^ 



CINCINNATI: 
Peter G. Thomson, Publisher, 179 Vine Street, 

1S78. 






9969 

THIS volume has been prepared at the instance of a number of the 
Ahimni of Marietta College, who believe it contains a chapter in 
the history of the' College worthy of preservation. 

The thanks of all who are interested in its contents are especially 
due to Professor D. E. Beach, who edited all and prepared many of the 
memorial sketches ; to Captain William Holden, who collected the 
statistics for the record of military service, and to President Andrews, 
who furnished the article, "Marietta College in the War." 



Cincinnati, O., November, 1878. 




INDEX. 



Marietta College in the War, by President I. W. Andrews, ... 5 

I'A.R.T II. 

I IT 3VC E IvI O E, I -A^ IvI . 

Captain Lawrence Waldo, by Professor G. R. Rossiter, .... ly 

Captain Edwin Keyes, by Captain H. L. Sibley, ...... 23 

Captain Theodore E. Greenwood, by Professor D. E. Reach, ... 27 

Lieutenant Timothy L Condit, by Gen. R. R. Dawes, . . 31 

Charles A. Blakely, by Professor D. E. Beach, ..... 31 

Captain William B. Whittlesey, by Col. Douglas Putnam. Jr., ...:>;; 

Milton K. Bosworth, hy Professor D. E. Beach, ..... _^o 

Lieutenant George B. Turner, by Col. Douglas Putnam. Ji., ... 43 

Charles A. Holden^ by Professor D. E. Beach, ..... ^j 

Lieutenant Edwin B. North, by Professor D. E. Beach, . . . 49 

Theodore Tupper, by Professor D. E. Beach, ...... :^2 

Du Fay Bowman, by Professor D. E. Beach, . . . . • SS 

Jasper S. Laughlin, by S. N. Maxwell, Esq., ...... c6 

Lieutenant Charles B. Gates, by Captain C. B. Beach, ... 60 

Captain Lewis R. Green, by Col. R. L. Nye, ..... 64 

Lieutenant Thomas W. Terry, by Professor D. E. Beach, .... 68 

John R. Blakeley, by Professor D. E. Beach, 71 

Joseph D. Clark, b\- Professor D. E. Beach, ....... 72 

Lieutenant Colonel William H. Eifort, by Professor D. E. Beach, . . 74 

I'A.RT' III. 

Record of Military Service, by Captain William Holden, .... 79 



MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Marietta Colleo'e has its seat on the north bank of the 
Ohio, at the mouth of the Muskingum, where the pioneers 
hmded on the 7th of April, 1788. The settlement was 
made under the auspices of an association which origin- 
ated with the officers of the Revolution. In 1783, immedi- 
ately after the declaration of peace, and before the final 
reduction of the army, Gen. Rufus Putnam forwarded to 
Congress a petition bearing the signatures of nearly three 
hundred army officers, asking that the lands which had 
been appropriated in 1776, to the officers and soldiers of 
the arm)-, might be located between Lake Erie and the 
Ohio river. Their desire was to form a colony which 
should be a defence to the frontier, and in time be admitted 
as a State into the Union. After waiting two or three 
years for the action of Congress, General Putnam and 
others formed, in 1786, an association known as the Ohio 
Company of Associates, and purchased of the Govern- 
ment, and settled a portion of the same lands referred to in 
their petition of 1783. 

The military .element was prominent in all the move- 
ments preparatory to the settlement. The call for the 
meetinp- was signed by Generals Rufus Putnam and Ben- 
jamin Tupper. At the meeting held at the Bunch of 
Grapes tavern, in Boston, March ist, 1786, General Rufus 
Putnam was chairman, and Major Winthrop Sargent, 



6 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

clerk. The committee appointed to draft the plan of an 
association, consisted of General Putnam, Colonel Brooks, 
Major Sargent, Captain Cushing and Rev. M. Cutler. 
The first four directors of the company were General S. 
H. Parsons, General Rufus Putnam, Rev. M. Cutler and 
General J. M. Varnum. 

The purchase of a large tract of land for the Ohio 
Company was made at the same time that the ordinance 
for the government of the Territory North-west of the 
river Ohio was enacted by Congress. The simultaneous 
occurrence of these two events was not an accidental co- 
incidence. They were parts of one transaction, and were 
essentially brought about by the same agency. The pur- 
chase of the land for the Ohio Company was effected by 
the same person who inspired the ordinance of 1787. The 
two events, which have had so much to do with the char- 
acter and prosperity of the North-west, show that those 
military officers acted with the highest wisdom in giving 
to their clerical associate so prominent a place in the 
formation of their association and in the direction of its 
affairs. No American State paper has received higher 
encomiums than the ordinance of 1787. It is now well 
understood that those parts which constitute its crowning 
excellence were furnished by the gentleman whom the 
Ohio Company commissioned to purchase of Congress the 
lands they needed for their colony, the Rev. Dr. Manasseh 
Cutler. 

In the settlement itself the military element was also 
prominent, as might have been expected. General Put- 
nam was made superintendent of the affairs of the com- 
pany. Generals Parsons and Varnum were two of the 
three judges of the Territory, and General Arthur St. 
Clair was the Governor. General Tupper came out with 



MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 7 

his famil}' diirintr the first summer. There were also Col- 
onels Israel Putnam (son of Major-General Israel Putnam), 
R. J. Meigs (father of the governor), Robert Oliver (presi- 
dent of the Territorial legislative council), Ebenezer Sproat 
(sheritl' of Washington county from 1788 till 1803, when 
Ohio became a State), Archibald Crary, Ebenezer Battelle, 
William Stacy, Enoch Shepperd and many others. Of 
those who settled on the lands of the Ohio Company 
within the first few years, probably sixty had held commis- 
sions as officers in the war for independence. 

It was by the descendants of these men that the 
College at Marietta was founded, and they have been its 
most generous supporters. Twelve, at least, of its Trus- 
tees have been the lineal descendants of the pioneers. 
The atmosphere of the place was thus of necessity histor- 
ical, and the students of the institution, graduates and 
undergraduates, in responding so heartily to the call for 
troops in 1861, exhibited that patriotic loyalty which might 
have been expected from those who had been educated 
under such influences. 

Besides the influence arising from the historical char- 
acter of the place and of the College, the geographical 
position of Marietta gave unusual prominence to the facts 
of the war from its very beginning. Because of its posi- 
tion on the border, the Governor of the State ordered the 
first regiment of Light Artillery to Marietta on the 20th of 
April, 1 86 1, and from that time till the close of the war, 
there was always a camp at the place. This, too, was the 
first gateway into Virginia. Here, on the 27th of May em- 
barked the first troops — the fourteenth Ohio infantry — that 
crossed the river. Here were organized a number of reg- 
iments: the thirty-sixth, of which Professor E. B. Andrews, 
class of 1842, was Major and afterward Colonel; the 
seventy-seventh, of which Benjamin D. Fearing, class 



8 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

of 1856, who had been a private in the battle of Manassas, 
was the Major; and the ninety-second, of which Major 
Fearing became Lieutenant Colonel, and subsequently 
Colonel, Douglas Putnam, Jr., class of 1859, the first 
Adjutant and then Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. J. D. Cotton, 
class of 1842, Surgeon, W. B. Whittlesey, class of 
1861, Second Lieutenant and subsequently Captain, 
and George B. Turner, class of 1862, Second Lieu- 
tenant and afterward Adjutant. The following extract 
from ■• Ohio in the War " shows the participation of 
this regiment in the battle of Mission Ridge, November 
25th, 1863: ^' Under the pitiless fire they were compelled 
to take breath from sheer exhaustion, so steep was the 
ascent. Midway the regiment's commander, Lieut. Col. 
Putnam fell (Col. Fearing had been severely wounded, 
two months before and was still absent). Near him Lieu- 
tenant Townsend fell dead. Color sergeants and guards 
were all shot away. Rallying the men by the colors, young 
Capt. Whittlesey, a brave and noble officer, fell dead. 
But the men went on — they had no leaders then. Ming- 
ling their cut and tattered banners with those of the thirty- 
sixth Ohio, they swept over the works, enveloping guns and 
defenders. Leading the storming party over the crest, 
young Turner, the Adjutant, received his death wound. 
The loss of the ninety-second w^as very severe, being in 
twenty minutes thirty-three per cent, of the officers and 
ten per cent, of the men engaged." 

During the whole war, the Hon. W. R. Putnam, a 
grandson of General Rufus Putnam, and a trustee of the 
College, was chairman of the military committee of Wash- 
ington county. He w^as also in command of the military 
post at Marietta, which w^as the rendezvous of the various 
regiments, and where, in the latter part of the war drafted 
men were sent for organization. In the many responsible 



MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 9 

and perplexing labors cle\'olving upon him, Colonel Put- 
nam called to his assistance at different times young men 
who had been educated at the College, and he often ex- 
pressed his gratification with the abilit}^ which they dis- 
played in performing the duties assigned them. It was not 
necessary to give them minute instructions, but they readily 
comprehended the general principles, and were able them- 
selves to till up the outline. At the time of the Morgan 
raid, the militia from a number of counties were ordered 
to Marietta, and it devolved upon Colonel Putnam to or- 
ganize them. In this work he was aided by various young 
graduates — some of them having had very little military 
experience of any kind, and all being entirely devoid of any 
experience of this special character, and their aid he found 
to be invaluable. 

Doubts are often expressed whether a liberal educa- 
tion has any direct beneficial influence on the student in 
preparation for a business lite in distinction from a pro- 
fessional one. It is held that however advantageous such 
a training may be for the w^ork of the professions, it is of 
no benefit for the other vocations of life. The histor}' of 
Marietta graduates in the war f\irnishes a complete refuta- 
tion of this doctrine. It shows most conclusively the great 
value of such training in the performance of those duties 
which are required in military service in general, and 
especially in those departments where the ability to tran- 
sact business is called into constant exercise, as in the 
work of the adjutant and quartermaster. Very many of 
the students of Marietta were assigned to duty in these 
departments, and it is believed that in every instance the 
duties were performed with fidelity and success. 

When in May, 1861, a young graduate was appointed 
by Gov. Dennison, quartermaster of the post at Marietta, 



10 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

there were not wanting predictions of failure. But his 
instructors, who had seen how resolutely he attacked and 
how successfully he solved the difficult problems that 
came up in his college course, had no fears as to his suc- 
cess. And they were not surprised when by and by word 
came from Columbus, that from no post in the State came 
reports more exact and clear, and in every way admirable, 
than those sent up by 3''oung Greenwood, the quartermas- 
ter at Marietta. 

There were other cases not less marked. As quar- 
termasters and adjutants the services of our college men 
seemed to be in special demand, and often they were 
placed in charge of important interests and entrusted with 
the control of property to a very large amount. However 
doubtful may have appeared the propriety of devolving 
such responsibilities upon those so young in years, and 
with so little experience, the result seems always to have 
justified the appointment. It is easy to declaim against 
collegiate culture and training, and to portray the advan- 
tages to be derived from an exclusive attention to a few 
practical branches, but the verdict of the largest and best 
experience is still in favor of the general course of study 
pursued in the classical college. 

When it is affirmed by an English writer, whose dog- 
matic dicta are often quoted by those with whom progress 
consists in always preferring the new to the old, that class- 
ical studies are pursued, not because of their utility but 
because of public opinion, it seems pertinent to inquire 
why it is that public opinion favors these studies. Cer- 
tainly they have been the object of repeated and persistent 
attack, and yet the most intelligent men of all classes in 
seeking the best education for their sons, send them to the 
college of the old-fashioned genuine type. It is worthy 



MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 11 

of notice also that in the face of this opposition there have 
been recently established colleges for young ladies, with 
courses of study as broad and full in the classics, as the 
most conservative of those for young men. 

As was to be expected the number of students at 
Marietta was largely diminished by the war. The first 
call for troops in April, 1861, was responded to by a num- 
ber of undergraduates, some of whom returned, after three 
months, to pursue their studies while others continued in 
the service till the close of the war. And during the 
whole four years of the struggle, undergraduates were 
from time to time laying aside their books to take up the 
implements of war. They went from every class, and many 
even from the preparatory school. From i860 to 1864 
the catalogue shows a steady diminution, the number in 
1864 indicating a reduction of thirty-six per cent, from 
that in i860. And it was not till 1870 that the catalogue 
showed an aggregate equal to that when the war com- 
menced. Thus as regards the number of students the 
college suffered for a period of ten years from the effects 
of the war. 

How many were turned aside from their studies 
while preparing for Marietta at home or elsewhere cannot 
be told, nor are the means at hand for ascertaining the 
exact number of those who, as undergraduates or prepara- 
tory students left the institution for the army. At times 
it seemed as if the whole college would go, the younger 
students being quite as enthusiastic as those older. The 
names of those who bore arms will appear in their order 
in another part of this volume, as well as brief sketches of 
the gallant youth who gave their lives in defence of their 
country. Seven consecutive classes, from 1859 to 1865, 
are represented in these sacrificial offerings; that of 1862 



12 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

losing two of its members, and that of 1863 losing three. 
It is remarkable that among her lost sons Marietta was 
called to mourn three valedictorians of their respective 
classes, who were all in college at the same time — Theo- 
dore E. Greenwood of 1859, Timothy L. Condit, i860, 
and George B. Turner, 1862. It was not the ambition for 
military renown that drew these noble young men to the 
held of battle. Their tastes were for other things. It 
was the call of their country which summoned them, and 
which they could not disobey. P'or her sake they were 
ready to make any sacrifice, for her sake they did sacrifice 
their own precious lives. 

In the beginning of this paper, reference was made to 
the military characters of those who organized the Ohio 
Company and established the first Colony in the North- 
west. It is worthy of note that the first student of Mari- 
etta to fall in battle w^as the lineal descendent of the two 
revolutionary officers who issued the call for the meeting 
in Boston in 1786 — Generals Rufus Putnam and Benja- 
min Tupper. Young Theodore Tupper, an undergradu- 
ate member of the class of 1863, who fell at the battle of 
Pittsburgh Landing, was descended from both these pio- 
neers, and at his death the name of one of them became 
extinct. Others of the early settlers had representatives 
among our precious dead. Mr. Joshua Shipman, being 
the ancestor of Charles A. Holden and Charles B. Gates; 
Captain Israel Stone of Jasper Stone Laughlin; and Cap- 
tain William Dana of Joseph Dana Clarke. 

And others whose loss we were not called to mourn 
but who rendered distinguished service in the war, are of 
revolutionary lineage. General Benjamin Dana Fearing, 
the grandson of Captain Benjamin Dana, and of Hon. 
Paul Fearing who was the delegate in Congress from the 



MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 13 

Territory, is also the descendant of Major General Israel 
Putnam. From the same revolutionary hero is descended 
Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Putnam, Jr., through Col- 
onel Israel Putnam, also a revolutionary officer and one 
ot'thc pioneer settlers. Mention has already been made of 
the service rendered to the Ohio Company and to the 
whole North-west by Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler. lie did 
not come to the West himself, but his son, Hon. Ephraim 
Cutler, was a pioneer and one of those w^ho framed the 
first Constitution of the State. How well this famil}^ was 
represented in the war, those know who are familiar with 
the military record ol' the brothers, General Rufus R. and 
Major Ephraim C. Dawes. 

This list might be largely extended did space per- 
mit. The descendants of the pioneers will not be ashamed 
of the deeds and sacrifices of those of their number who 
went forth to battle in behalf of their country. The col- 
lege will never cease to cherish the memory of her youth- 
ful sons who attested the sincerity of their patriotism with 
their blood. And she will ever hold in high honor those 
whom a kind Providence spared amid all the perils of war, 
and permitted to return and enjoy the rich blessings of 
that Union which their valor helped to secure. 



PART II, 



In ^pmoFiam. 



SKETCHES OF THE I.IVES AND SERVICES OF THE 

SONS OF MARIETTA WHO FELL IN THE 

NATIONAL STRUGGLE. 



/ 



Captain LAWRENCE WALDO, 83d Regiment 0. V. L 

Graduate, Class of 1853. 

Lawrence Waldo was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
May 22d, 1834. His father was the distinguished physician 
of that city, Dr. F. A, Waldo. His mother, an accom- 
plished ladv, superintended his instruction in the rudiments 
of English, Latin and Greek. At the age of eight years, he 
entered Woodward College, Cincinnati, where he pursued 
his studies under that eminent teacher. Dr. W. IL 
McGuffe}'. He was also for a short time a member of the 
private classical school of Mr. Brooks. 

In 1849, he entered Marietta College, and after a full 
four years course, he graduated in 1853. He always 
maintained a high rank in scholarship, and in addition im- 
pressed his fellow students with the c()n^•iction that he 
possessed a reserve force of native ability, which, when 
called into exercise in after life, would insure him decided 
success. In 1856, he received the degree of A. M. from 
his Alma Mater. 

After graduation, he studied law in Indianapolis, and 
was there admitted to the bar of the United States District 
Court, May 25th, 1856. A letter of condolence from a 
lady of Indianapolis, received bv Dr. Waldo after the 
death of his son, reveals to us the impression young Waldo 
made upon society during his stay in that city; '^ I am 
proud to say that your noble son was an intimate friend of 
my late husband. Mr. Waldo's brilliant mind, and tlie 
ease and elegance of his manners made him the ornament 
of society and the idol of his bosom friends. We loved 



18 • MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

him most dearly. I shall remember his last visit to me 
with a sad pleasure. It was shortl}^ after my own sorrow 
had come upon me, when I saw him shed tears of sym- 
pathy with me, I prayed God to preserve him through the 
perils of war. His last words to me were, ^ trust in God. 
His hand is in all things. Good will come from all the 
dark clouds.' " 

Mr. Waldo had removed to Cincinnati and was prac- 
ticing law in that city, when President Lincoln's call for 
75,000 volunteers resounded through the land. He 
promptly joined the Cincinnati Zouave Guards, Capt. J. G. 
Baldwin, which became company D, in the second regi- 
ment O. V. I. This company was composed of choice 
young men of Cincinnati. Within twenty-four hours after 
the telegraph had brought the President's call to Cincinnati, 
the Zouaves had offered their services. The next day they 
were at Columbus, and before the week had passed the 
cars were bearing them to the relief of Washington. 

The second regiment shared in all the discomforts, 
which hasty equipment and imperfect organization rendered 
inevitable in that first campaign. In Schenck's Brigade, 
Tyler's Division, they took part in the memorable battle 
of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861. 

After the expiration of his three months' term of en- 
listment as a private, Mr. Waldo was offered commissions 
in several eastern regiments, but he returned to Ohio 
and employed the military skill he had acquired, in drill- 
ing some of the new regiments, among these were the 
thirty-sixth and sixty-ninth regiments, O. V. I. 

In the summer of 1862, he was appointed Adjutant 
of the eighty-third regiment O. V. I., seven companies of 
which had been recruited in his own county of Hamilton. 
His commission as First Lieutenant, bears date July 21st, 



CAPTAIN LAWRENCE WALDO. 19 

1862. He was advanced to aCaptaincy on September 25th, 
1862. He accompanied his regiment, when, as yet incom- 
plete in its organization, and only partially equipped, it was 
summoned to join the hasty expedition into Kentucky, to 
check Kirby Smith's advance upon Cincinnati. 

In October 1862, the eighty-third regiment was as- 
signed to the First Brigade, Tenth Division of the Army 
of the Tennessee; General Burbridge was in command 01 
the Brigade, and General A. J. Smith of the Division. In 
November, 1862, General Smith's Division was sent to 
Memphis to join Sherman's command, and toward the end 
of December, it passed down the Mississippi under that 
General, in pursuance of the order of General Grant, "to 
proceeed to Vicksburg and reduce it." Captain Waldo's 
regiment shared in the unsuccessful attack of December 
28th upon the impregnable position of the enemy at 
Chickasaw Bluff. 

It being now evident that Vicksburg was not to be 
easily reduced, an expedition was dispatched up the 
Arkansas to attack Arkansas Post. The eighty-third bore 
a prominent part in the assault of January nth, 1863. It 
was the first regiment to plant its colors on the enemy's 
battlements, and the Ohio Legislature by an unanimous 
vote of thanks evinced its estimate of the regiment's good 
conduct. 

With the rest of McClernand's command, the eighty- 
third now joined the forces of Grant, in the long continued 
endeavor to subdue Vicksburg. After several months of 
tedious campaigning, they crossed the Mississippi on April 
30th, and entered upon that most brilliant and original of 
Grant's campaigns, the movement below Vicksburg, upon 
its rear. On May ist, the eighty-third participated in the 
engagement with the enemy at Port Gibson; again on 



20 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

May 1 6th, at Champion Hills, — on the 17th, at Black River 
Bridge, and on the 20th it sat down with the rest of Grant's 
army to the seige of Vicksburg; July 4th, saw Pemberton 
surrender the beleagured city and its garrison; an immedi- 
ate movement was made against the forces of Johnson, in 
which the eighty-third took part. It was actively engaged 
in the operations around Jackson, till that capital was 
entered by the army, July 17th, 1863. The regiment then 
returned to Vicksburg. 

In all these stirring campaigns and engagements of 
his regiment, Captain Waldo was present, faithfully dis- 
charging his duty, and winning the approval of those under 
whom he served. 

Towards the end of 1863, Burbridge's Brigade still 
including the eighty-third was ordered to Louisiana, where 
it continued in active service, though engaged in no great 
battle, till the spring of 1864. During this period, Cap- 
tain Waldo suftered much from fatigue and privation, and 
his health was seriously impaired. He was allowed to go 
home on sick leave, and soon began to recruit his strength. 
While yet only partially recovered, he returned to active 
service with his regiment. 

Preparations were now making for Gen. Banks' ex- 
pedition up the Red river, which was destined to result 
so disastrously to the Union arms. The eighty-third was 
assigned to this expediton. On the 8th of April 1864, the 
forces of Gen. Banks encountered the enemy in force at 
Sabine Cross Roads, near Manstield, Louisiana. The 
eighty-third made a determined stand to check the advance 
of the enemy, but were over-powered by numbers, and were 
forced to fall back. The loss of the regiment was heav}'. 
In retiring they were compelled to leave their dead and 
wounded upon the battlefield. Among those thus left 



CAPTAIN LAWRENCE WALDO, 21 

was Captain Waldo, severely wounded in the left arm and 
breast. He had discharged his duty manfully on this fatal 
day. Lieut. Col. Brown, of the ninety-sixth regiment 
O. V. I., writes that he " saw him during the engagement 
at the head of his company, and he manifested a great deal 
of bravery on the occasion." 

An account of the sickness and death of Captain 
Waldo is drawn from some extracts from a letter to Dr. 
Waldo, written by Chaplain G. M. Scott of the ninety- 
sixth. " After the battle of April 8th, with eleven of our 
surgeons, I remained with our wounded, within the Con- 
federate lines, when it became necessary for our forces to 
fall back. Captain Waldo, with many others, was taken 
the same evening to a house, which was used as a hospital, 
and made as comfortable as possible until the next morning, 
when they were all taken in ambulances, about five miles to 
Mansfield. He was placed in the Masonic Hall, with plenty 
of cotton to lie upon, and in a short time, a bed sack was 
procured and filled with cotton, which made a comfort- 
able bed, with a blanket for a covering. He was in every 
way made as comfortable as possible, under the circum- 
stances. I can assure you that every attention was given 
to him by way of nursing, that was possible. In addition to 
the regular hospital supplies, which were the same as the 
Confederate hospital had, there were several kind-hearted 
ladies that took pleasure in preparing and bringing in to 
him such little delicacies as they had the means of prepar- 
ing. But notwithstanding all that could be done, his 
physical frame wasted away. Death seemed to have 
marked him for his victim. He suffered much, but bore 
it with fortitude, and cheerful submission to the will of 
God. Some time before his death, I sat by his side and 
wrote, while he dictated a letter to you, which was sent 



22 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

with some other mail matter through to our lines, under a 
flag of truce. I had frequent opportunities of conversing 
with him on the subject of religion, and offering up pray- 
ers at his bedside. His faith was firmly based upon 
Christ, as his hope of salvation." 

"On the evening of the 25th of April, he died in 
peace. On the morning after his death, his remains were 
enclosed in a good substantial coffin, and interred in a 
well enclosed cemetery. His name, rank, company and 
regiment, together with the date of his death, were dis- 
tinctly marked upon a head-board, which was set up at 
his grave. He lies in a row with Captains Dickey, Chap- 
man, Coulter, Dimmit and Miller. Frequently after the 
shades of night had gathered over the place, some kind, 
sympathizing friend would visit the spot, and strew flowers 
and evergreens over the grave. I deeply sympathize with 
fond parents, bereft of a son of such promise, who distin- 
ofuished himself for valor on the field of battle." 

There, in that far distant country, Lawrence Waldo 
sweetly sleeps — life's labors over. He gave his life for 
his country. He had not livpd quite thirty years, but 
though he had attained to longer life, he could not have 
died a nobler death. Marietta College proudly writes his 
name in the list of her heroes and martyrs — and her trust 
is, that as successive generations of students gather within 
her walls, to fit themselves for active life, their young 
ambition may be moulded and guided, by the memory of 
what Waldo and his noble compeers accomplished in the 
cause of freedom and of native land. 



CAPTAIN EDWIN KEYES. 23 



Captain EDWIN KEYES, 116th 0. V. I. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1854. 

The subject of this sketch was born in Windsor 
township, Morgan County, Ohio, July 21st, 1828 — the 
child of poor but upright christian parents. At an early 
age he showed a studious disposition, and while 3'oung 
became a school teacher in the neighborhood of his 
birth. 

Compelled to support himself by work on the farm, 
or in school, young Keyes struggled for more of educa- 
tion than his home opportunities afforded. Accordingly 
in 1848, he became a student in the preparatory depart- 
ment of Marietta College. Passing regularly through, 
in 1850 he entered College, a Freshman. Adverse cir- 
cumstances, however, prevented his going further in the 
course than to the Junior year of his class. 

April 13th, 1854, he was married to the wife who 
survives him, by whom he had a son, Charles Edwin, 
now living. His attachment to his family was remark- 
ably strong and deep. 

About i860, Mr. Keyes removed to Tupper's Plains, 
Meigs County, Ohio. This is a pleasant village, finely 
located on a plateau, the center of a prosperous farming 
community. The point was selected for the site of a 
school he wished to establish. Teaching was then his 
chosen vocation. Devoted to his work, and a natural 
leader among men, he so aroused the people of this village 
and vicinity, in the cause of education, as to secure the 
erection of an Academy building wherein he founded a 
flourishing school, known as the Tupper's Plains Sem- 
inary. Young men and women from a distance, as well 



24 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

as of the country immediately around the Plains, were at- 
tracted to this school by the success and growing fame of 
its teacher, and by the high character he bore as a man. 
The specific aim of the institution was to train its 
pupils for teaching, and prepare young men for College. 
The close of the first year showed the enterprise triumph- 
antly successful. Even the excitements and anxieties of 
civil war did not prevent a steady increase in the attend- 
ance upon the school, and of interest in the work it was 
doing. Truly, a Master was at its head! 

The summer of 1862 came, with its disasters to the 
Union armies in the terrible conflict with Rebellion. 
Still the school on the Plains was full. A large number 
of young people was gathered there, enthusiastic in stud}^, 
under the inspiring direction of a teacher they had learned 
both to love and respect. But the appeals of that dark year, 
to Northern patriotism, rang in the ear of the Master, and 
met a warm response from his heart. 

At this time Mr. Keyes was in the clear road of as- 
sured success in his profession. The field for a great and 
good work was open in peace before him. Moreover, he 
was bound to home by ties which, with a nature such as 
his, were at once among the tenderest and most powerful 
in life. But he was a patriot who loved Liberty, and the 
Union of his fathers, and to whom the trumpet-call of 
Duty never was sounded in vain. Around him, also, was 
a body of young men who would follow him as their 
leader, to the field of battle, or remain under his guidance 
in the pursuit of knowledge at home. 

The struggle, the writer knows, was exceedingly 
severe. But a clear sense of duty — the vital principle of 
all his actions — was, as it ever had been with him, decisive; 
and August 12, 1862, he accepted, after enlistment, a Cap- 



CAPTAIN EDWIN KEYES. 25 

tain's Commission in the Volunteer service of the United 
States for " three years or during the war." The young 
men of his school rallied around him in the country's ser- 
vice, almost to a man. Such was his influence, indeed, 
and so profound the confidence which his abilities and 
character inspired, that in less than one week from his ap- 
pointment, he was in camp at Marietta, Ohio, followed by 
a dozen more men than could be mustered into his com- 
pany. 

His became Company B, of the ii6th O. V. I. 
While Captain Keyes remained with his men, they served 
chiefly in West Virginia and in the war-famed Valley of 
Virginia. He participated in all the important battles of 
this valley from the opening of 1863 until he was made a 
prisoner of war. 

On the 1 8th of June, 1864, near Lynchburg, Va., with 
his men, he was in a desperate and bloody charge upon 
the enemy's works. While leading his command amid a 
storm of bullets, he was hit and severely wounded in the 
knee. Our forces being driven back, one of his men was 
helping him along when another shot was received in the 
arm, inflicting a painful wound. Unable further to pro- 
ceed, he was unavoidably left, with others disabled by 
wounds, to fall into the hands of the enemy. To the last, 
however, he was undismayed, and showed the resignation 
of the christian with the fortitude of a soldier. Finally, 
July 19, 1864, in Hospital at L\^nchburg, Va., of the 
wounds received as stated above, he died. He faced the 
last enemy surrounded by strangers, and in prison. Before 
his death. Marietta College had conferred upon him the 
honorary degree of Master of Arts. 

Captain Keyes stood full six feet, with a well propor- 
tioned frame, and a presence which always commanded 
respect. He was a man of refined sensibilities, and feel- 



26 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

ings of child-like tenderness. His life was pure, blame- 
less — of exalted aim and purpose. He was possessed of 
a vigorous mind, well disciplined, and marked by a pecu- 
liarly sound and comprehensive understanding. As a 
teacher he greatly excelled; and as a soldier he leaves a 
proud record for personal bravery, and the able, prompt, 
discharge of every duty which the service cast upon him. 
But the crowning glory of his character was its moral 
symmetr}^ and power. In the regiment, his was styled 
the " religious company." Twice a day, when circum- 
stances permitted, he led his men in prayer; and in one 
instance, it is known, these services resulted in a soldier's 
conversion. A few words from a letter to his father, in 
January, 1863, give an insight into the real life of the man 
which justifies their insertion here. Thus he wrote: "I 
meet with the sorest trials and endure the keenest tempta- 
tions. But through all these my Savior sustains me. In- 
deed, I feel while leaning on his powerful arm, that noth- 
ing can harm me. These are my feelings in scenes of 
danger. * * j know not but sorer trials are in 

store for me. My country may demand the poor offering 
of my life, and my dear wife and darling boy be left with- 
out their earthly stay and support. But if the bitter cup 
must be drained, trusting in my Savior, I hope to be sus- 
tained as life is laid upon the altar.'" 

Heroic, christian soldier! You drank this cup to the 
dregs. No life more sublimely pure and noble, in purpose 
and work, was given, a sacrifice for the Nation's life, in the 
war against Rebellion. Of all who thus fell, we can 
truly say: 

Beautiful is the death-sleep 
Of those who bravely fight 
In their Country's holy quarrel, 
And perish for the Right. 



CAPTAIN THEODORE E. GREENWOOD. 27 



Captain THEODOEE EDGEKTON GREENWOOD. 

Graduate, Class of 1859. 

Capt. Theodore Edgerton Greenwood, only son 
of George Greenwood, Esq., and Elizabeth Edgerton 
Greenwood, was born at Newport, Washington Co., Ohio, 
February 7th, 1838. His home life combined simplicity 
with intelligence, the strongest affection with wise parental 
control, and was fitted every way to nourish the best ele- 
ments of manhood. He grew up an active, healthy boy, 
with a sound heart as well as a bright intellect. 

At the age of sixteen he came to Marietta, entered 
the Academy, and in one year completed the work 01 
two, entering the Freshman Class in September, 1855. 
He at once attracted attention, both in the class-room and 
on the Campus. A boy in years and in stature, and with 
the playfulness of a child, he impressed everybody by the 
evidence of manliness. This showed itself in many ways, 
but in none perhaps more plainly than in the rules he im- 
posed upon himself regarding sleep and exercise, and in 
the firmness with which he adhered to them from the be- 
ginning to the end of his course, in spite of the example 
and solicitations of his companions. This system kept 
him strong, though his application to study was severe. 
Hard work seemed a necessity of his nature, for in every- 
thing great and small, he appeared to be forced to do his 
best, and he made success a law to himself. The thought 
of possible failure seemed to double his strength; opposi- 
tion roused him not only to unwonted energy, but to a 
readiness of invention which before would hardly have 
been suspected. On the play-ground, in the class-room, 



28 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

or in the literary society, this passion to succeed was per- 
haps the most noticeable trait which he presented to a 
stranger. And he did succeed almost uniformly, and that 
too without descending to any mean arts to gain advan- 
tage; it was a combination of will and power. 

During his college course, Greenwood united with the 
Congregational Church at Marietta, after a severe and pro- 
tracted spiritual struggle, and always evinced the same 
sincerity and decision in religion as in other things. 

In the summer of 1859 he graduated at the head of 
his class, leaving on the minds of students, faculty and 
citizens of Marietta, the impression of unusual power and 
promise. Desiring rest, he remained at home for some 
months, but on the death of Tutor Washburne he was in- 
duced to take the tutorship at Marietta for the remainder 
of the year. The next year he spent some time in the 
study of Law, though in much doubt about a profession. 
At length, to the surprise of friends, he put away his law 
books, declined a favorable opening to that profession in 
the North-west, and decided to make himself a man of 
business. Decided as was his fitness for the legal profes- 
sion and for public life, he doubtless knew his own pow- 
ers, and judged well that his linest abilities were execu- 
tive. 

But the breaking out of the Rebellion spoiled his 
plans, as it spoiled those of so many ardent young men 
in 1 86 1. Indeed, the advancing shadow of that great 
event announced its coming so clearly as to disturb his 
plans in advance. As early as the Autumn of i860, he 
began to study Scott's Tactics, and in a confidential talk 
with a College friend, said: " Any observant man can see 
that we are on the eve of a terrible war between the North 
and the South, and the man of military knowledge will 



CAPTAIN THEODORE E. GREENWOOD. 29 

be the man of power, who can help his country in her 
hour of need." Those who would have laughed at this 
then as a boyish fancy, thought differently six months 
later. Men were stud3'ing Tactics in earnest, and with a 
prospect of speedily putting their knowledge to practice. 

But when hostilities began, Greenwood was not per- 
mitted at once to take the Held. Circumstances seemed to 
forbid his leaving his parents, and until the way could be 
made plain, he would not take such a step. However, 
determined not to be idle, he was made Post Quartermas- 
ter at Marietta, where troops were gathering to be sent 
into West Virginia. In this position his executive ability 
and energy were for the tirst time displayed in a public 
station, attracting the notice both of military men and civ- 
ilians. In the Autumn of the same year he was called to 
a more important position of the same kind at Wheeling, 
where he achieved the same success. 

But he was not satisfied with this kind of service; he 
believed that he was needed in the field. He wrote to an 
intimate friend about this time that he believed it the duty 
of every young man of sound health to give himself to 
the active service of his country. Accordingl}^, having 
at length satisfied the claims of filial duty which had be- 
fore detained him, he resigned his position, and, in June, 
1862, having enlisted in the military service, was appointed 
on the start' of Gen. Rosecrans, who had become ac- 
quainted with him in West Virginia, but was now in com- 
mand of a portion of the army of the Tennessee. Green- 
wood started immediately for the field, full of ardor, grati- 
fied to be at length where he would have opportunit}' to 
do his part in the great struggle. His letters of that date 
are full of the spirit of his station. 

But his service was short; a single Summer in the 



30 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

climate of Mississippi cut him down. Weakened by dis- 
ease, he concealed his condition as much as possible from 
his General, and in the battle of luka, September 19th, he 
was placed in a position of much danger and responsi- 
bility. Our line was broken, and Greenwood, by his cour- 
age and skill, succeeeded in stopping a detachment that 
was flying before the enemy, and restored order to that 
part of the line. General Rosecrans testifies that " Cap- 
tain Greenwood's conduct was admirable." But the ex- 
ertion and excitement were too great for his strength. In- 
deed, a less resolute man would probably have thought 
himself unfit to go into the battle at all. On the second 
day after the battle he was completely prostrated, and was 
taken in an ambulance to Jacinto, Mississippi, where he 
rapidl}' sank, and a week later, on the 27th of September, 
1862, passed away. 

Though Greenwood lived to fight but one battle, yet 
judging by what he was, what he was worth, and what he 
gave promise of doing, all who knew him felt that he was 
one of Marietta's greatest sacrifices for the Nation's life. 



LIEUTENANT T, L CONDIT. 31 



Lieutenant TIMOTHY L. OONDIT. 

Graduate, Class of i860. 

Killed in the Battle of Murfreesborough, December 
31st, 1862. 

Timothy L. Condit was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 
in December 1837. In 1852, a boy of fifteen 3'ears, he 
entered the office of the Marietta Intelligencer as an ap- 
prentice. He devoted three years to the mastery of his 
trade as a printer. During this time spare moments were 
occupied in diligent preparation for College. He so far 
succeeded in fitting himself, that, after one year more 
spent partly in the preparatory department, and partly in 
working at his trade, he entered College the most thor- 
oughly prepared of any member of his class. This leader- 
ship he maintained throughout the course, graduating in 
i860, as the Valedictorian of that year. Principally by 
his own labor as a printer, he secured the money to pay 
his way through College. The perseverance and force to 
achieve such marked success against such obstacles, of 
themselves, stamp Condit as a young man of devoted 
purpose, great industry, and no ordinary ability. 

But in the fiery ordeal that afterward tried him, he 
developed an integrity, a courage, an unselfishness, which, 
crowned b}' his martyrdom in the cause to which they 
were devoted, must command for his memory the respect 
due to heroism in its truest and highest sense. 

In 1856 he had made a public profession of religion, 
and united with the Congregational Church of Marietta. 
It was his conviction that duty called him to devote his 
life to the Ministry. To this end his labor of preparation 



32 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

in College had been directed. In the fall of 1861 it was 
his purpose to have entered upon his theological studies. 
But the call for help from the young men came from our 
Government. Condit made no hasty decision of the mo- 
mentous question of duty. It is well known to the writer 
that the subject was pondered long. He ultimately de- 
cided to volunteer his services in the cause of freedom 
and good government, while they were needed, and, if 
spared to return after his work was done on the field of 
battle, to then take up his preparation for the ministry. 
In pursuance of this decision, he entered Company " L " 
of the I St Ohio Cavalry, as a private soldier, for three 
years' service. An educated gentleman, with influential 
friends in places of authority, he could have had a com- 
mission for the asking. Deeming himself unprepared for 
the responsibility of command, he refused to ask one. 
Through the camps and campaigns of his regiment, a gal- 
lant body of soldiers, Condit faithfully performed his 
arduous duties, adorning his humble position by maintain- 
ing amid all trials, temptations, and sufterings, his chris- 
tian profession and gentlemanly bearing. On the 29th of 
May, 1862, he was promoted to be Second Lieutenant in 
his Company. 

On the 31st of December, 1862, on the battle-field of 
Murfreesborough, in the thickest of the fight, and at the 
head of his squadron, Condit was shot dead. 

Two Companies of his regiment, on duty guarding a 
wagon train, were suddenly overwhelmed in the fierce on- 
set of the attack by the Confederate Army. Said a pri- 
vate soldier who rode with Condit on that day, " When 
the Lieutenant was killed they were all around us, we 
could not see any way out. The Lieutenant said the only- 
way was to charge and then retreat. He rode forward to 



LIEUTENANT T. L CONDIT. 33 

lead and was killed." To make wa}^ for his men to get 
out Condit died. Arnold Winkelried, when he gathered 
to his breast the spears of the Austrian phalanx died not 
a more heroic death. 

His body was recovered from the battle-field, and 
now lies buried in the Mound Cemetery at Marietta. As 
a token of appreciation of the character and service of 
this noble Christain patriot and martyr, the Society of the 
Alumni, and his fellow-soldiers of the ist Ohio Cavalry, 
placed a monument over his resting place. 

As a type of that spirit of devotion to dut}- which re- 
gards not danger, of that adherence to Christian principle 
which is swayed by no influence, and of that patriotism 
which rises to the level of a sacred duty; may his mem- 
ory ever be cherished by the young men, who, in the com- 
ing years, may gather around his Alma Mate?'. 



34 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



OHAELES A. BLAKELY. 

Undergraduate. Class of 1862. 

Charles A. Blakely was the oldest son of Rev. 
Abram Blakely, who was a member of the first graduat- 
ing class of Marietta College, that of 1838, and who en- 
tered Collegfe after he was married. 

Charles was born at Marietta in the year 1837. 

In 1856 he began his classical studies at the Prepara- 
tory Department of Marietta College, and entered the 
Freshman Class, September, 1858. He remained in Col- 
lege about two years. He enlisted August 2d, 1862, in 
Company A, 9th New York Heavy Artillery. Hard ser- 
vice and exposure on the defences of Washington occa- 
sioned hemorrhage of the lungs so severe that for a long 
time he was unable to speak. Thus broken in health he 
was sent home to his father at Lawrence, Kansas, where 
he died. May 30th, 1864. 

He was noted in College for his ready wit and amia- 
ble disposition. He was also a sincere and humble Chris- 
tian, following in the steps of a godly father, who both 
preached and exemplified the principles of Christianity. 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM B. WHITTLESEY. 35 



Captain WILLIAM BEALE WHITTLESEY. 

Graduate, Class of 1861. 

William Beale Whittlesey, son of Hon. William 
A. Whittlesey, and Jane H. Whittlesey, of Marietta, Ohio, 
was born at Marietta, October 2nd, 1841. Even in boy- 
hood he showed a taste and ambition for military life, and 
when a young man under age, he was made an aid de camp 
of General Hildebrand in the State Militia. 

Perhaps his military ambition was kindled by an 
event w^hich happened when he was eight years old. 
General Zachary Taylor, then in the freshness of his fame, 
put his hand on the boy's head, and predicted that he 
would make a good soldier. Boys do not forget such 
things. Young Whittlesey grew up in his native town, 
being educated in the public schools, and pursuing his 
Classical studies in the Preparatory Department of the 
College. 

In September, 1857, at the age of seventeen, he en- 
tered the Freshman Class and was graduated in the Sum- 
mer of 1 86 1. 

In the fall of 1862, he aided in raising a Company, 
and was commissioned a second Lieutenant of Company 
F. 92d, O. V. I. For some reason, he, from the first, 
seemed to make the writer a confidant, and talked freely 
of his hopes and disappointments, as well as of his fore- 
bodings and fears. 

An only son, his relation to his father was a peculiar 
one — while having a most hearty and filial respect for him, 
he seemed to regard him as his best friend and companion, 
and spoke daily almost of their intercourse and compan- 



36 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

ionship. The Regiment remained in the Kanawha Valley 
until the first of 1863, when it was ordered to Nashville, 
and attached to the Army of the Cumberland. We were 
sent to Carthage, on the upper Cumberland River, and 
marched to Murfreesborough and joined in the pursuit of 
Bragg as far as Big Springs, Tenn., where we remained 
for some weeks, drilling and recuperating from the deci- 
mating attacks of measles, and the consequent diseases 
which we experienced while at Carthage. 

From this point we joined the Fourteenth Army 
Corps, under that noblest of noble Generals, George H. 
Thomas, and formed one of the many Regiments which met 
Bragg at Chickamauga, September 17th and i8th, 1863. 
As it became evident that a battle was imminent, Whit- 
tlesey talked freely to me of it — wondering how he would 
stand fire — how he would act, and asked me, if he fell 
doing his dtity, to so state it to his father. He went into 
that battle and, in his earnestness, unnecessarily exposed 
himself — taking position in front of his Company, and 
directing their fire. He escaped without injury — was 
commended in the official report of the battle, and, after- 
wards a vacancy occurring, was made Captain. 

His humor was constant. During that awful Sunday 
afternoon of the Chickamauga battle, when the Fourteenth 
Corps and rallied detachments of Crittenden's and Mc- 
Cook's commands, all under Thomas, withstood the re- 
peated assaults and charges of Bragg's Army of the first 
day, reinforced by twenty thousand veterans under Long- 
street, who arrived during the night; the Union lines had 
been driven into the shape of a V, with the enemy on the 
two sides, and the Brigade of which the 92d was a part, 
holding the apex, under a terrible fire of musketry from 
sharpshooters, who were in the trees picking off all who 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM B. WHITTLESEY. 37 

were visible. The men were ordered to lie down and 
seek such shelter as the inequalities of the ground af- 
forded, and there remained for some hours ivaiting and 
guarding, constantl}^ under fire, yet with no opportunity 
of returning it. To my inquiry to General Turchin 
what we should do, the reply was, " We will stay here 
until we are all cut to pieces." Whittlesey lay with 
his Company and called to me— " I am all right — look 
here — can't hit me!" The man in front of him wore 
No. 1 1 shoes, and as he lay on his face, with his shoes 
on their toes, Whittlesey had placed his head behind 
them, thus forming a tine barrier. In the evening a line 
of the enemy had formed across the open end of the V; 
the Brigade was hurriedly ordered to drive them back, and 
did it, capturing many prisoners, and opening connection 
with General Granger. In the excitement of this charge, 
Whittlesey demanded the surrender of one of Granger's 
batteries — supposing it to belong to the enemy. His ac- 
count of his chagrin on discovering his mistake was laugh- 
able, and made him the butt of many jokes. 

After the battle he talked freely to me of his feelings, 
and seemed to dread the next engagement. All doubts as 
to his ability to stand' fire removed, he would say he never 
wanted to see another battle, and evidently lived in appre- 
hension of the next one. The Regiment remained in 
Chattanooga during that Fall, and formed part of the for- 
lorn hope under command of General Baldy Smith, by 
which communication was opened with General Hooker, 
coming to our relief from Bridgeport. A part went by 
small fiat-boats in the night, past the enemy's pickets at 
Lookout Mountain; while the remainder marched across 
the neck and joined them at Brown's Ferry, where a 
crossing was made, the boats being used to form a pontoon 



38 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

bridge. The army provisioned and reinforced, prepara- 
tions soon began for the assault of General Bragg, securely 
posted on Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. From 
the summit of the latter shells were frequently thrown 
into our camp from a battery stationed there. It was not 
many da3's before the ominous order was issued to prepare 
three days cooked rations, and one hundred rounds of am- 
munition. All soldiers knew its meaning, and were also 
well aware that no boy's play was before them. Whittle- 
sey made the requisite preparations and then awaited the 
command to move — making first his will — in which he 
remembered the Psi Gamma Society, of which he was an 
enthusiastic member when in College. He expressed a 
wish that if struck by a ball, it might be through the 
heart. He led his company up that hill — so steep that it 
was no easy task to climb it when no enegiy was on the 
top; and when near the top, a minie ball went crashing 
through his heart. Telling his men to go on, that he was 
killed, he breathed his last amid the smoke and carnage of 
that long to be remembered evening. 

The cord that bound son to father seemed to possess 
the qualities of the electric wire; the shock that took the 
life of the son signalled the father, a'thousand miles away. 
On the next Thanksgiving day, 1863, taking his usual 
morning walk, Mr. Whittlesey said to a friend: "I feel 
that there has been a great battle, and Beale is killed." 
He was advised to dismiss it as a fond father's fancy, and 
went home. Soon after, seeing another friend coming to- 
wards his house, he said: " There comes Mr. P. to tell me 
of Beale's death " — which was too true — the telegram 
from Dr. Cotton, the regimental Surgeon, sent that morn- 
ing from Chattanooga, conveyed the sad news — news that 
made that Thanksgiving day one memorable in more than 



CAPTAIN WILLIAM B. WHITTLESEY. 39 

one liimil}', and among the friends and acquaintances of 
Whittlesey and Turner. The funerals of both were held 
the same day some weeks afterwards. The bodies lay in 
state in Psi Gamma Hall for a season. Mr. Whittlesey 
never seemed to recover from the shock of Beale's death, 
and soon followed him. 



40 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Sergeant MILTON K. BOSWORTH. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1862. 

Milton Kimball Bosworth was born in Chester, 
Meigs Co., Ohio, January 2d, 1838. He was a delicate 
child and grew up with the tastes of a student rather than 
with those of a man of the world. In 1859 ^^ entered 
the Sophomore Class in Marietta College, taking at once 
a high rank as a scholar. 

The war broke out during the last term of his Junior 
year, and though apparently unfitted by constitution, taste 
and habits for the hard service of a soldier's life, he 
promptly enlisted in September of that year, as a private 
in Company H, Fift3^-third Ohio Regiment. 

Upon the organization of the Company, he was ap- 
pointed First Sergeant. The tirst battle of the Regiment 
was Pittsburgh Landing or Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, 
1862. In this action the Union troops were assailed in 
their camp. The encampment had been selected mainly 
with reference to convenience of wood and water, and the 
accommodation of the new troops that were constantly ar- 
riving. An attack was not expected, and no regular line 
of defense had been chosen. The 53d Ohio Regiment, 
the extreme left of General Sherman's division, was one 
of the tirst attacked. It was thrown into confusion, but 
soon rallied and bore an honorable part throughout the 
battle. Sergeant Bosworth's conduct during this action 
won for him the confidence and respect of the Regi- 
ment. In May, 1862, he was made Quartermaster Ser- 
geant. He soon familiarized himself with the duties of 



SERGEANT MILTON K. BOSWORTH. 41 

this position, and was frequently called upon by officers of 
other commands for assistance in preparing their accounts. 
In December, 1862, while some distance outside the lines, 
in charge of a mill near Abbeville, Miss., grinding corn 
to eke out the half-rations then issued to the troops, his 
party was tired upon by a number of guerillas, concealed 
near by, and three out of the seven slightly wounded. 
Bosworth gathered his men, charged and drove away the 
guerillas, and, returning to the mill, linished his work, and 
brought the meal safel}^ to camp. 

In Feburar}', 1863, the principal officers of the divi- 
sion united in recommending him for the position of Cap- 
tain and Assistant Quartermaster. 

About I o'clock in the morning of March 6th, 1863, 
the Regiment, then in camp at La Grange, Tenn., was 
aroused by the explosion of a box of cartridges in the tent 
occupied by Bosworth and other attaches of the Quarter- 
master's department. Surgeon John A. Lair, an eye- 
witness of the scene, says: 

" Sleeping in a tent only a few feet removed from his, 
I was aroused with some excitement by the proximity of 
the hre, and rushed toward the spot, when some one cried 
out that there were large stores of fixed ammunition in 
the tent. Besides, the tent was giving off such an impen- 
etrable volume of black smoke that nothing could for 
some moments be seen. At length the walls next to the 
fire-place were rent by the flames, and the air rushing in, 
instantly set the whole fabric in flames. Then it was plain 
that men were inside struggling for life. A moment more 
and the poor fellows broke through the front of the tent, 
nearl}' cooked alive. Sergeant Bosworth's entire body 
was exposed and fearfully burned. The entire palms hung 
from his finger-ends, and the soles of his feet he dragged 
after him. 



42 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

Early the next morning he asked me what I thought 
of his chances, and requested me to be frank in my opin- 
ion, and I did as he desired. 

When I told him the worst, he thanked me for my 
efforts, and said, as I shall never forget: 

" Doctor, do your best for me, and I will make the 
best fight I can." Never a murmur or a complaint escaped 
him, and when asked whether he suffered much pain, he 
always replied " No," which I think was true, owing to the 
extensive destruction of the nerves of sensation permeat- 
ing the surface of the body. Consciousness remained per- 
fect up to a short time preceding final dissolution, which 
occurred three days after the accident, March 9th, 1863." 

Major Dawes, of his Regiment, says of him. ''Bos- 
worth was a constant student. All of his spare time in 
the army he occupied in studying. He was in the habit 
of lying down in his tent at night, and reading for hours 
by the light of a candle stuck in a bayonet, or fixed to a 
board by melting tallow on it." 

He was also a decidedly religious man, having made 
a profession of religion in boyhood, and maintained it firmly 
and consistently to the end. 



ADJUTANT GEORGE B. TURNER. 43 



Adjutant GEORGE B. TURNER. 

Graduate, Class of 1862. 

George Butler Turner was a son of Samuel R. 
Turner, Esq., and Hannah B. Turner, of Marietta, Ohio, 
and was born at New London, Conn., Nov. 13th, 1840. 

From the age of eight years his home was at Marietta. 
He graduated at the High School, then finished his prep- 
aration for College under a private tutor, entered the 
Freshman Class in the Fall of 1858, and passed through 
his course with the highest credit. 

The writer well recollects that afternoon in the Summer 
of 1862, while aiding in the organization of the ninety-sec- 
ond regiment O. V. I., at Camp Marietta, when he received 
a call from George Turner, who had graduated in July of 
the same 3'ear with the highest honors of his class. He 
said he wanted to enlist as a private soldier. I was not a 
little surprised, and reminded him what such a step meant, 
and what he would have to undergo. His parents were in 
the East, at the time and, as he said, knew nothing of his 
intentions. I tried to dissuade him from enlisting then^ 
but his only reply was that he felt it his duty to do so, and 
soon thereafter was enrolled in Company F, in which W. 
B. Whittlesey was a Lieutenant. The motive controlling 
his enlistment seemed to govern his -whole life — simple 
duty. He was made orderly Sergeant of the company, 
and, as might have been expected, conducted its duties to 
the entire satisfaction of his Captain and other officers. 

Although of seemingly frail constitution and one likely 
to succumb to the hardships and trials of a soldier's life, 



44 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

yet he seemed to stand it well, so far as I can now re- 
member, being usually in good health, always bright and 
cheerful. An earnest christian, he was at all times con- 
sistent, yet by no means obtrusive in asserting his faith, his 
everyday life commended his belief to all those associating 
with him. In battle he was cool and self-possessed. At 
Chickamauga, at a critical time. Col. Fearing and his 
Adjutant were both wounded and word was brought to 
the writer, on the right wing, to assume command; Turner, 
then acting as Sergeant Major, notified me of it, kindly 
urging me to keep cool, and all would be well. At this 
battle the Adjutant, D. E. Putnam was so badly wounded 
as to render his discharge a necessity, and Turner who had 
been promoted, was made Adjutant of the Regiment as 
soon as it could be done; in which capacity he acted after 
the date of that battle, September i8th, 1863. 

For two months after this engagement, the Army of 
the Cumberland was shut up in Chattanooga, and in the 
latter part of November began the series of battles which 
culminated in the capture of Lookout Mountain and Mis- 
sion Ridge, in the course of which many valuable lives 
were lost. 

On the afternoon of November 25th, 1863, the ninety- 
second Regiment with less than four hundred fighting men, 
formed a part of the column that assaulted and captured 
Mission Ridge, Turner lived to reach the summit un- 
harmed, the commanding officer of the Regiment had been 
wounded, Whittlesey and other officers killed and others 
wounded in the assault, which was a very difficult one, the 
hill being steep and rough. The summit once reached 
and the enemy driven over, he assumed command of the 
shattered line, now three times decimated, in about a half 
hour and with drawn sword, I am told, rallied the men 



ADJUTANT GEORGE B. TURNER. 45 

about him and led them to aid in repelling a brigade of 
the enemy who were coming to the assistance ot" their 
comrades in our front. He here received his mortal 
wound, a large niinic ball striking him just behind the ear; 
no doubt he was facing the men urging them forward at 
the time. 

General Breckenridge who commanded the Confed- 
erate line in the immediate front of our brio-ade and 
di^■ision, told the writer a few 3-ears since that the aiithic- 
ity of the steady, persistent, unflinching line of blue coats 
up that rocky hill, in the face of sixty pieces of artillery 
and a long line of muskets in the hands of veterans, so ter- 
rified the Confederates that all control was lost; the men 
were panic stricken and could not be held to their line of 
defense, but gave way and retreated in confusion down 
the hill, abandoning all their artillery, which fell into our 
hands. 

We were taken to the hospital from the field in the 
same ambulance, yet so patient and quiet was he, that I 
did not know he was with me, until my attention was 
called to it. After a preliminary dressing we were taken 
to my own tent at Regimental Headquarters, and there 
were comrades separated by only a couple of feet, in that 
hardest of all a soldier's varied duties, the simple endu- 
rance and 'Waiting. Everything was done that could be, 
but his wound was mortal. He was evidently expecting 
death, and while he talked but little, seemed to draw com- 
fort from his pocket testament opened at the 14th and 15th 
chapters of John, Fie was not left comfortless^ we may 
rest assured. General Turchin who commanded the 
brigade called to see us, and in speaking of Turner's bra- 
very and ability, offered him a position on his staff, asking 
him if he would like it. The reply came at once — "I am 



46 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

willing to go and do that in which I can be the most use- 
ful.'' He gradually sank, became delirious and when it 
was thought best to remove him to the Officers' Hospital, 
gave me his hand saying, "Good bye Colonel, good bye, 
we will both go home together." He went home that 
night — living but a few hours afterwards. He died, 
December ist, 1863. Just before going into this last bat- 
tle, he wrote a letter home, to be mailed in case he should 
be killed, which closed with these words — "If I return 
not with the victors, think not the sacrifice too great for 
the interests at stake." 



CHARLES ASA HOLDEN. 47 



CHARLES ASA HOLDEN. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1863. 

Chales Asa Holden was a son of Nathanial Hol- 
den, and Julia Shipman Ilolden, of Marietta, Oliio, born 
October 21st, 1840. 

He was brought up in the town of his birth, attend- 
ing first the Public School, and then in 1857, beginning his 
preparation for College in the Marietta Academy. 

In September, 1859, he entered the Freshman Class 
in Marietta College, and continued in his class until the 
breaking out of the war. To the first call for troops young 
Holden promptly responded, being enrolled in Company 
K, Eighteenth O. V. L, April 2 2d, 1861, seven days after 
President Lincoln's first proclamation was made. 

He went with his regiment through its three months' 
service, and at its close was regularly discharged. Re- 
turning home, he re-enlisted October 9th, in Company C, 
I St West Va. Light Artiller}-, better known under the 
name of Buell's Pierpont Battery. 

This battery began its active service in the field, in 
the valley of Virginia, in the Spring of 1862, and from that 
time its service was hard and constant until the Autumn, 
including the rapid marching, and frequent battles, and 
skirmishes of the Shenandoah campaign of that Summer, 
and the fierce and bloody battles of Pope's short cam- 
paign in Eastern Virginia. The list of these skirmishes 
and battles is very suggestive of the hard service which 
this battery endured in that short season; Strawberry, Va., 
June 2d; Torn Brook, June 2d; Mt. Jackson, June 3d; 
Cross Keys, June 8th; Port Republic, June 9th; Luray, 



48 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

July 9th; Cedar Mountain, August 9th; Freeman's Ford, 
August 22d; Sulphur Springs, August 24th; second battle 
of Bull Run, August 29th and 30th; Leesburg, Septem- 
ber 17th; Catletts' Station, September 26th. 

In one of these engagements Holden had a horse shot 
under him; in another he received a slight wound in the 
leg. 

As the cold ^\"eather set in early, the soldiers Avere 
much exposed, and being encamped where for some time 
water was difficult of access, were compelled to eat snow. 

Holden, in these circumstances, was seized with pneu- 
monia, and, being taken to the hospital at Centreville, 
rapidly sank, and, on the loth of November, 1862, died. 



LIEUTENANT EDWIN B. NORTH. 49 



Lieutenant EDWIN BARNES NORTH. 

Graduate, Class of 1863. 

Lieut. Edwin Barnes North was born on the island 
of Sino-apore (East Indies), January 29th, 1837, being the 
son of Rev. Alfred North, a missionary. His family re- 
turning- to this country, he entered the Preparatory Depart- 
ment of Marietta College in 1858. Slight in person, pale 
and almost feminine in countenance, and withal keenly 
sensitive and retiring in disposition, North was one of those 
young men who need only opportunity to develop and dis- 
pla}^ those traits of character which belong to the highest 
type of manhood. To him, opportunity was not wanting. 
An excellent scholar, he passed through his College course 
profoundly respected for his integrity, and especially for his 
high conscientiousness. His fellow students always knew 
just where to find him when any matter of principle was 
involved; and it was well understood not only that he was 
immovably firm in his convictions but that he had convic- 
tions on many subjects which are often regarded as matters 
of indifference. 

At the close of his Junior year, in the Summer of 
1862, young North, with many of his fellow students, re- 
sponded to the urgent call for three months' volunteers; 
though he saw but little fighting in this short campaign, 
stories are told of him by his comrades, illustrating both 
his courage and piety. They tell of his exhibition of nerve 
when on trying picket duty, and of his taking a long 
tramp on one occasion to find the Rebel owner of a corn- 
field to pay him for a few ears of green corn which he 
would not eat without full payment. 



50 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

After this Summer campaign, he returned to College 
and finished his course, graduating with the class of 1863. 

Going home to Attica, N. Y., in July, he was con- 
fronted at once with the question of duty. The war was 
then at its height; the call for troops imperative. North, 
the son of a missionary, born at a mission station in a 
heathen land, and nurtured in the atmosphere of apostolic 
Christianity, had looked forward to no warfare but that of 
the truth, and to no battles but those of the Lord. His 
physical constitution, too, as well as his health at this time, 
was entirely unfit for the hardships of a soldier's life. 
What should he do? In the course of that eventful Sum- 
mer, he found a solution of the difhcult question. The 
Government had decided upon the employment of Colored 
troops, and white men were called for to command them. 
North had felt for the oppressed and ignorant Blacks of 
the South, and he seemed to hear now a distinct call from 
God to serve his country by becoming at once an officer 
and a missionary to these dusky soldiers. We may be 
sure that it was not ambition that called him to this ser- 
vice. When it is remembered that the white officers of 
colored troops were then, at least, looked upon by the 
enemy, with the bitterest hatred, were refused the usual 
rights of civilized warfare, received no quarter, and when 
dead were consigned to indiscriminate and unmarked 
burial with the blacks they commanded; it will readily be 
seen that such a position presented few attractions to 
thoughtful and cautious young men. It was different with 
North. He sought not his own comfort or honor, but 
cheerfully obe3/ed what was clearly a call of duty. Early 
in October he was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in 
the Ninth Regiment of the Corps d'Afrique (afterwards des- 
ignated as the Eighty-fourth Regiment, U. S. C. I.) stationed 



LIEUTENANT EDWIN B. NORTH. 51 

at Port Hudson, Louisiana. He enlisted with the under- 
standing that he should have opportunity and facilities for 
teaching as well as drilling and leading his men. Says a well 
known officer in writing of him: "How well he devoted 
himself to the work of befriending and elevating these sol- 
diers, and the noble spirit in which he labored, will be seen 
from the following requisition of which I have one of the 
original triplicates. It is a special requisition for a black- 
board, writing books, primers, etc. After an enumeration 
of the articles required, is the following certificate: 'I 
certify that the above requisition is correct, and that the 
articles specified are absolutely required for the public 
service, rendered so by the following circumstances. The 
doors of knowledge have in past times been closed to the 
blacks of the South, and the mandate has gone forth from 
God and a free people that they shall be opened.' The 
requisition was approved by his commanding officer, and 
Lieut. North obtained his books and other educational 
apparatus. I know of no one of all our student soldiers 
who would obey more promptly and resolutely such a 
^ mandate of God and a free people.' " 

But as he was a missionary soldier, it was decreed 
that he should also be a martyr. His delicate constitution 
could not endure the exposure and hardships of military 
life, and in six months after his enlistment his course was 
run. Having been seized with typhoid pneumonia, he 
was taken to the hospital on Saturday, April, 3d, and died 
the next Wednesday, April 7th, 1864. 

His last words were characteristic, and tell the story 
of his entire career. A fellow officer went in to see him 
on his death bed, saying as he approached: " I am sorry 
to see you here." The young Christian soldier replied: 
" I am where my God has placed me, and I am content." 

Lieutenant North was buried near Port Hudson. 



52 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Sergeant THEODOEE TUPPEE. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1863. 

Theodore Tupper, son of E. W. Tupper, of Putnam, 
was born at Putnam, Ohio, January nth, 1843. He was 
a lineal descendant of Gen. Benjamin Tupper and of Gen. 
Rufus Putnam, both officers in the Revolutionary army 
and both pioneers of Ohio. He resided in Putnam until 
the Autumn of 1859, when he entered the Freshman class 
at Marietta College. He was a young man of fine appear- 
ance and excellent scholarship, giving promise of sustain- 
ino- the credit of his ancestry. 

Early in 1861 he left college for the double purpose 
of recruiting his health and obtaining the means of piose- 
cuting his studies. He went to Illinois and began laboring 
on a farm. But in the mean time President Lincoln 
issued his call for seventy-five thousand three months men 
to quell the Rebellion. To this call young Tupper 
responded with generous enthusiasm, volunteering as a 
private in Company H, Fortieth 111. V. I. Before, however, 
the regiment was fully organized, came the call for three 
years, to which the regiment responded favorably, and 
Tupper began his military life in Jetferson Barracks, Mis- 
souri. Here after some delay, the regiment was equipped 
and ordered to Bird's Point opposite Cairo, to fortify and 
guard that post; thence to Paducah, Kentucky, where for 
months it continued to protect that city and region. 
Meanwhile Tuppers education and talents attracted the 
attention of the superior officers of the regiment as well as 
of his own company, and the quartermaster ofl:ered him 



SERGEANT THEODORE TUPPER. 53 

the post of clerk. This offer he declined, preferring to 
remain in the ranks with his company, where he was uni- 
versally admired by officers and men. Soon after he was 
promoted to the post of Sergeant. 

After the capture of Fort Donelson, the 40th left 
Paducah with the advance of our army south, and formed 
part of the First Brigade, Fifth Division under Gen. W. 
T. Sherman, occupying the right wing of the army of 
Gen. Grant. On the 5th of April the regiment was 
encamped near Shiloh church, that little building in the 
woods, destined to give its name to one of our greatest 
battles. That evening Tupper had a strong presentiment 
of the battle and of his own death. So strong was this 
impression that he talked of it to one of his messmates, 
requesting him to take charge of his effects, to see that he 
was buried, and his grave properly marked. His friend 
laughed at him, as despite the skirmishing that had been 
going on in front for a day or two, few expected a battle. 
Early on the morning of the 6th, Sherman was attacked 
by a heavy force, and though parts of his line were broken, 
the First Brigade did not waver, but, being ordered to 
hold its position at all hazards, held it till 11 o'clock, A. 
M. Tupper, on this terrible morning, seemed in his usual 
spirits and was doing gallant service, though, when ques- 
tioned by his comrade, he still insisted that he was to be 
killed, and reminded him of his request of the night before. 
At 10 o'clock his Brigade was ordered to the Purdy and 
Hamburg road, and soon after, the Brigade on the left 
having been swept away, was marched so as to close in 
with the right of Gen. McClernand. Being hard pressed 
Gen. Sherman ordered the First Brigade to charge on the 
left flank of the enemy, which they did in gallant style, 
and drove him back. In this attack, in charging upon a 



54 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

battery, Tupper was wounded in the arm, and ordered to 
the rear, but refused to leave his post for so slight a thing. 
In the next charge he had advanced some distance to the 
front of his company, so as to be able to see the line of the 
enemy, being very near-sighted; and animating his men 
by his conspicuous bravery and his inspiring words, he 
was struck in the temple by a minie ball and instantly 
killed. He fell when just in the act of firing, and literally 
gave his last moment to his country. He was deeply 
mourned by his entire company as one of their best and 
bravest soldiers, one who possessed their entire confi- 
dence, and who on that great day of their first battle had 
displayed a gallantry worthy of the bravest veteran. 

Thus ended at the early age of nineteen the military 
career of one who had already shown himself worthy of 
the noble stock from which he descended. He was the 
last of the descendants of Gen. Tupper, who bore his name. 



DU FAY BOWMAN. 55 



DU FAY BOWMAN. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1864. 

' Du Fay Bowman was the son of Jeremiah Bowman, 
M. D., of Sistersville, West Virginia. He prepared for 
College at West Liberty, entered the Freshman Class at 
Marietta in the Fall of i860, at the age of seventeen, and 
remained until May, 1861. 

He served for some time in the United States Navy, 
acting as Surgeon's Steward on a vessel of the Atlantic 
Squadron, stationed at Newberne, North Carolina. 

He died in Hospital, at Newberne, August, 1864, of 
disease contracted by nursing an officer. 



56 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



JASPEE STONE LAUGHLIN. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1864. 

Jasper Stone Laughlin, only son of Joseph and 
Amanda Stone Laughlin, was born at McConnelsville, 
Ohio, February 6th, 1840, and died at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
May 1 6th, 1862, in the twenty-third year of his age. 

His early years passed in the peaceful quiet of a 
happy home, in the society of his mother and sisters, his 
father having died when he was but a child, and under 
such influences his character gradually unfolded and gave 
promise of what his manhood would be. He had an 
acute and discerning conscientiousness, with courage both 
physical and moral of the highest order. One of his 
schoolmates says of him that he was the most conscien- 
tious boy he ever knew; and another says of him that his 
most striking characteristic was his courage. He united 
with the Church in which his father had lived and died, 
at an early age, and, in 1861, at the age of twenty-one, 
such was his Christian character and deportment, that he 
was elected and ordained a Ruling Elder in the same 
Church. 

Always an ardent and ambitious student, he looked 
forward to College life with boyish enthusiasm, and, hav- 
ing carefully prepared himself, entered Marietta College 
in the Fall of 186 1, in the Sophomore class of 1864, where 
his industry and ability placed him at once in the front 
rank of a large and promising class. Nor did his ambi- 
tion and success prevent him from becoming a general 
favorite. His winning manner and pleasing address opened 



SERGEANT JASPER S. LAUGHLIN. 57 

the door for him to the favor of every one, and the door 
once open, his manly frankness, his social disposition, and 
his many loveable qualities made him always welcome. 
He seemed to have none of the infirmities of common 
minds, but to live in an atmosphere above them, and so 
free from envy or jealousy was he, that on one occasion 
at recitation, having solved a difficult problem in mathe- 
matics, and been commended by the Professor, with char- 
acteristic ingenuousness he said that the credit for solving 
the problem was not due to him, but to another one of the 
class, whom he named. He entered earnestly into all the 
exercises of the Literary Society to which he belonged, 
then, as now, one of the important features of Marietta 
College life, and manifested qualities as a debater and es- 
sayist that warranted his friends in entertaining the high- 
est expectations of him, and in the self denial which he 
practiced in order to advance the material interests of the 
Society, proved himself the possessor of that spirit which 
afterward led him to sacrifice himself for the advancement 
of the great cause of liberty. 

Almost on the threshold of a college life of so much 
promise, he was stopped by the failure of his eyesight, and 
after about ten weeks stay, returned home in the hope 
that rest might fully restore his sight During this time 
the War of Secession had been growing into larger and 
larger proportions, and every where regiments were form- 
ing and going to the front. Away from the studies and 
interests of College life, in the quiet enforced by the par- 
tial failure of sight, his thoughts turned toward his duty 
to his country. With him to think was to act. He en- 
listed November 28th, 1861, in Company " E," Sevent}'- 
eighth O. V. I., a regiment which was then being organ- 
ized in Muskingum and adjoining counties. He enlisted 



58 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

as a private, the officers of the Company having been 
chosen before he joined, and w^as selected as one of the 
sergeants. December 2d, 1861, he writes to one of his 
friends: "I have obtained the consent of my mother, and 
I mean to prove myself not unworthy of that patriotic de- 
votion which has induced her to give up her only son as 
an offering in this great struggle for constitutional liberty." 
He an onl}' son, and his mother a widow! Could patriotic 
devotion do more ? Further on in the same letter, he 
says : " It is with regret that I abandon the anticipations 
of pleasure and profit at College, but I never saw the path 
of duty marked out so plainly before me." 

The regiment made its rendezvous at Camp Gilbert, 
West Zanesville, and, on Februarv nth, 1862, being fully 
organized and ready for the field, broke camp and started 
for the scene of action, reaching Paducah, Kentucky, on 
the 13th inst., from which place it moved up the Cumber- 
land on boats to join the army under Gen. Grant, who 
was then attacking Fort Donelson, but did not reach the 
Fort in time to participate in the action, though in time to 
witness the suffering that follows such conflicts. 

From this time on, Laughlin was constantly engaged 
in the camp and marching duty that falls to the lot of non- 
commissioned officers. Both the season of the year and 
the country were unhealthy, and his constitution, never 
rugged, suffered from fatigue and exposure, and his anxiety 
to do his whole duty rather caused him to over-exert him- 
self, for wherever he was it was natural for him to go to 
the front. Notwithstanding all, his sense of dut}^ did not 
weaken, nor his confidence fail. He writes: "It is in my 
religion that I find courage and strength for every emer- 
gency. It is an humble confidence which I cherish, un- 
worthy as I know myself to be, that I have an interest in 



SERGEANT JASPER S. LAUGHLIN. 59 

the redemption purchased by Christ for fallen men that 
robs the grave of its terrors."" 

The regiment reached Pittsburgh Landing, March 
17th, 1862, and took part in the battle during the second 
da3\ Hardship and exposure now began to tell on 
Laughlin's delicate constitution, and his health failed so 
much that it was determined to send him home. He 
seemed to know fully his critical condition, for when the 
hope was held out to him that he would soon be home 
and see his mother and sisters, he said: " I am going to a 
far better home than any on earth. Tell my mother and 
sisters that I die happy; tell them to sing 'joyfully' when 
they hear of my high promotion from the army, and the 
service of my country, to the bright climes of bliss." He 
was taken to Cincinnati, and there placed in the hospital and 
every care and attention given him but in vain. He failed 
gradually, though perfectly conscious and rational to the 
last, his strong pure Christian faith and character making 
the deepest impression on all about him. So, with per- 
fect trust in the life to come, leaving loving messages for 
his famil}- and friends, one of the purest and noblest spirits 
God ever gave to earth, returned to Him again. 



60 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Lieutenant CHAELES BEMAN GATES. 

Undergraduate, Class of 1865. 

Looking back to the dark years when so many 
homes were made desolate that the whole country seemed 
to sit in one common bereavement, there yet stand in 
the memory, spots where the shadows rested with un- 
wonted heaviness J where the time and manner in which 
death came, and the relations of the dead to the living, 
gave elements of peculiar and overwhelming sadness to 
the sorrowful stroke. 

Lieutenant Gates was the only son of Beman 
Gates, Esq., and Betsy Shipman Gates, of Marietta. He 
was born October 30th, 1844, and entered Marietta College 
in 1 86 1. 

Already in these early days of the war, his heart and 
soul were enlisted in his country's cause, and he entered 
College rather than the army only because of his extreme 
youth. In the recruiting camp which was established at 
Marietta, the officers were drilled regularly by an army 
officer, and at his request his father obtained permission 
for him to join in the drill. He joined the force which 
was organized in Marietta for defense and guard duty, and 
was present at Buffington when John Morgan attempted 
to cross the Ohio at that point. In this kind of duty he 
became proficient in the manual of arms, and satisfied in 
part his desire to help his countr}' in her need, while at the 
same time he continued his studies. 

Meantime the war raged on. Victories and defeats 



LIEUTENANT CHARLES B. GATES. 61 

• 

alike added to the nation's dead, and the voice of mourn- 
ing filled the land. Regiments which went away with full 
ranks, had come back piecemeal, on crutches, on cots, and 
in coffins. The day when men enlisted under the inspira- 
tion of 1nfe and drum had passed away. The dark days 
of the Spring of 1864 had come, and the government 
was laboring desperately to recruit the armies which were 
melted away in the teiTible battles of the Wilderness cam- 
paign. 

Young Gates felt that the time had come when he 
must give himself wholly to his country's service. Friends 
tried to dissuade him, feeling that to break away in the 
midst of his education was a sacrifice that was not called 
for. But he remained firm in his conviction that it was 
his duty to go, and his parents yielded their consent, feel- 
ing that to withhold it would be to crush all manliness in 
him. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth 
Regiment, which was formed in response to the call of 
Governor Brough, was chosen First Lieutenant of his 
Company, and was duly commissioned. 

On the 23d of May, at two o'clock, A. M., he left 
with his Regiment for the front by rail, via Parkersburg to 
Harper's Ferry. When about five miles below Marietta 
the train was thrown from the track down an embank- 
ment; two of his fellow students were killed, and he re- 
ceived severe internal injuries. Unwilling to turn back, 
he proceeded with his regiment; but his injuries, aggra- 
vated by exposure to rain, marching, and camping with- 
out tents, resulted in his death at Harper's Ferry, May 
31st, 1864. 

Thus he was cut down at the very threshold of the ser- 
^■ice which he had longed for. He had followed Greenwood 
and Condit, and Whittlesey and Turner to their last rest- 



62 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

ing place, and he entered this service with a full realiza- 
tion of the dangers involved, expressing his readiness to 
give up his life for his country. The sacrifice w^as required 
of him, w^hile the experiences which are dear to the sol- 
dier were denied him. 

In his College course he developed business rather 
than professional qualities. He was especially devoted to 
the more practical branches of study. He was greatly 
attached to his Literary Society, and took an active part 
in the frequent debates upon the questions which were 
then absorbing the public mind. He read more for infor- 
mation than amusement, and his essays, which were often 
upon some political subject showed quick perception, pen- 
etration, and sound judgment. With his fellow students 
he was universally popular. He was thoroughly unsel- 
fish, generous, often to his own detriment, as he frequently 
permitted his own record to suffer, through a desire to 
serve others. Through all his intercourse with his fellows, 
there ran a thoughtful regard for the feelings of others, 
and a fine, delicate sense of honor which won for him 
the warm affection and esteem of a large circle of friends, 
both in his own and the other college classes. 

There were few residents of Marietta, old or young, 
to whom his bright intelligent face was not familiar; and 
his pleasant, respectful ways, and frank, hearty friendliness 
had endeared him to all. He was devoid of all affectation, 
and slow to manifest the deeper feelings of his heart, yet no 
one who was intimate with him could fail to see that a deep 
reverence and affection for his parents was the strongest sen- 
timent of his nature; so strong that it held him firmly from 
the temptations to which his sociable, fun-loving disposition 
rendered him peculiarly liable, and became a constant in- 
centive to honorable effort. 



LIEUTENANT CHARLES B. GATES. 63 

He was maturing rapidly, and gave every promise 
that he was passing to a successful and honorable man- 
hood. 

His death came with a weight of swift sorrow w^hich 
words can not measure or express. A telegram brought 
to his parents the tidings of his critical condition, and they 
hastened to Harper's Ferry by the first train, but reached 
there only to find that he was already dead, and they re- 
turned brinofing- with them the lifeless form of him who 
had left them a short week before in the strength and 
beauty of his early manhood. 

In all the sad experiences of the war, perhaps noth- 
ing shows more strongly the fearful cost at which the 
country was saved, than cases like this, when an only and 
tenderly lov^ed son was taken, leaving a sharp sense of 
bereavement and irreparable loss which the passing years 
do not lessen, and which even religion can only soften, 
but can not take away. 



64 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Captain LEWIS R. GREEN. 

Preparatory Student. 

Lewis R. Green, who was a student in the prepara- 
tory department of the College, during the years 1856-7, 
was born at St. Clairsville, Belmont county, Ohio, October 
3d, 1839. His father, Lewis H. Green, was an elder 
brother of the late Judge Davis Green, of Marietta. 
Removing with his father's family to Zanesville, Ohio, 
when thirteen years of age, " Richard " was afterwards 
employed as a clerk, for his uncle, Israel Green, then a 
druggist at McConnelsville; but very soon developing an 
inclination to study, and forming a resolution to qualify 
himself for the practice of law, he came to Marietta Col- 
lege. Here he was familiarly called " Dick Green " by 
his college associates, and is remembered as a thoughtful, 
diligent and exemplary student. Had he remained he 
would have entered the freshman year in 1858. 

As to the cause for his change of course, we are not 
informed, but at the age of eighteen he returned to McCon- 
nelsville, and was engaged for about two years as editor 
and publisher of the " Herald," an established newspaper 
published there; in which position he evinced a remark- 
able maturity of judgment, which together with a good 
fund of general information and excellent business tact and 
habits of industry, made his paper command the respect of 
the community and the admiration of the political party to 
which it was allied. He showed early an interest in pol- 
itics, in the true sense of the term, and he was well read in 
American political history and biography. 



CAPTAIN LEWIS R. GREEN. 65 

It was during this period that he became a sincere 
and active christian and made a public profession of his 
faith as such; which relation he consistently sustained 
until his death. 

Mr. Green seems never to have abandoned his purpose 
to become a lawyer, however, and at the age of twenty 
we find him pursuing his studies in that direction, in the 
office of his uncle, Judge Green, at Marietta. At this time 
some of his college associations were resumed; he was 
elected an honorary member of one of the literary soci- 
eties, and sometimes attended its meetings and took part 
in debate. 

The opening of the war, in April 1861, found our 
subject so employed. Courage and patriotism such as 
were aroused in Green's heart required but little time for 
decision as to the proper course for him to pursue; and 
accordingly, on either the first or second day after the 
attack upon vSumter, he enrolled his name as a private in 
the first company of volunteers from Washington county, 
that of Captain Frank Buell of the Eighteenth O. V. I. 

After going into camp at Columbus Mr. Green was 
discharged from this company, and went to Morgan county 
for the purpose of enlisting a company for the war, which 
he very soon succeeded in doing. Being chosen captain 
he was commissioned June 4th, 1861, and assigned with 
his company to the Twenty-fifth O. V. I., Colonel James 
A. Jones, (afterwards commanded by General W. P. Rich- 
ardson of Marietta,) and served with his company in 
Virginia in the campaign of 1861-2, taking part in the 
following engagements, among others, viz: Cheat Moun- 
tain, September 14th, 1861 ; Greenbrier, October 3d, 1861; 
Camp Allegheny, December 12th, 1861; McDowell, May 
6th, 1862; Cross Keys, June 6th, 1862; and a series of 



66 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

actions from that day, culminating in the second bat- 
tle of Bull Run on the 28th and 29th of August fol- 
lowing. During a portion of this time his company 
served as a guard at Corps headquarters; and at the 
battle of Culpepper, which occurred about the first of 
August, Captain Green was selected by General Sigel 
as one of his aids. It was while serving in this capacity, 
carrying despatches under the broiling August sun, that 
he contracted the disease resulting in his death, which 
took place at Washington city, September 5th, 1862, 
His remains were taken to Zanesville and interred with 
those of his family and friends who had " gone before." 

Captain Green is described by his comrades as " an 
excellent officer and amiable man," courageous, vigilant 
and efficient; one always to be depended upon. 

While stationed at Beverly Va., Captain Green, being 
taken ill, secured board and attention at a private house 
where an unpleasant incident which grated upon his patri- 
otic feelings led him to change his " quarters," and, 
seeking a " union family " where he might be properly 
cared for, he was fortunate enough to be directed to the 
house of Mrs. Arnold, a sister of General " Stonewall " 
Jackson, where he remained until, as he supposed, his 
health was fully restored. For the kind attentions of this 
estimable lady and her family to Captain Green, and for 
their pleasant appreciation of him, his friends have grateful 
remembrance, and we take the liberty of inserting an 
extract from a letter recently written by her to one of 
them. 

Mrs. Arnold says: "We learned to esteem him for 
his manly qualities. He was especially careful of the 
feelings of others, solicitous about the spiritual welfare of 
all with whom he was connected. He was an honorable, 



CAPTAIN LEWIS R. GREEN. 67 

manly man. We learned of his death some time after he 
left our home, with deep regret, and felt that our common 
country had lost a true son." 

Those who knew Captain Green will at once recog- 
nize the justness of this estimate of him. Though young 
in years, he was remarkably mature in character; a pure^ 
sincere and true man. This brief memorial sketch is con- 
tributed with great pleasure by one who was fortunate 
enough to know something of his friendship, though with 
a sense that it falls short of doing justice to so noble a 
subject. Captain Green was an honorable representative 
of that large number of young men who, when just enter- 
ing upon lives of credit to themselves and usefulness to 
the State and to society, so cheerfully responded to their 
Country's call in the hour of her peril, and have given to 
her their lives, a precious tribute. The memory of such 
is blessed. 



68 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Lieutenant THOMAS W. TEERY. 

Preparatory Student. 

Thomas W. Terry was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, 
February 9th, 1841, and died at Camp Burnside, Ky., 
March 3d, 1864. 

At the breaking out of the Rebellion, Mr. Terry was 
a student at Marietta College. He was under age, but 
felt that call of patriotism which stirred in the breasts of 
so many of our noble boys, to serve his country in her 
hour of need. Like a dutiful son, he telegraphed to his 
father: "The boys are going; may I go too.^" The an- 
swer flashed back instantly, " Go, but don't get shot in the 
back." He volunteered in Company G, First O. V. In- 
fantry. After serving two months, he received an appoint- 
ment as Cadet in the Military Academy at West Point, 
and entered at once upon the duties that he might the 
better be fitted to serve his country. 

After having been there nearly two years, he wrote 
to his father asking his consent to resign, and return to 
active service in the army. He was urged to remain and 
graduate, but he still insisted on resigning. 

In one of his letters to his father, he says: "Father, 
I wish you to give me your consent to resign, as I can not 
study here while I know my country needs my services 
in the field, and I think it is my duty to go, as it is every 
other young man's. While I write, our very Capital is 
being threatened by rebels, and I wish to be one who can 
say in after years with pride, ' I helped to defend it.' I 
must go." 



LIEUTENANT THOMAS W. TERRY. 69 

He left West Point in June, 1863, and came home. 
There not being any new regiment forming in this State 
at that time, he joined the First Ohio Volunteer Heavy 
Artillery, as a private. He vv^as, soon after joining, made 
Lieutenant. The command was ordered in January, 1864, 
to move from Camp Nelson, Ky., to Camp Burnside, Ky., 
immediately. The commanding General, S. S. Fry, ap- 
pointed him Acting Assistant Qiiartermaster, and placed 
him upon his staff. He drew his mules, some five hun- 
dred, part of which had been broken down, and the re- 
mainder young and unbroken. The drivers too were 
about as green as the mules. He loaded up and left the 
second day after receiving the order. The weather was 
cold and wet, but he put his command through much 
sooner than was expected, and was highly complimented 
by the General commanding. The supplies being very 
short he was compelled to return for more. He made 
three trips through the mud, rain, and snow, on the last 
of which he was sick all the way with a very severe 
cold. Typhoid fever set in, and he breathed his last ni 
a neat cedar cabin, built by the officers and the men 
expressly for him, on the banks of the Cumberland 
River, March 3d, 1864. His last words were: "Forward, 
March ! " showing that he was at the post of duty, and 
ready to go forward in the service of his country. He 
loved his country more than he loved his life. His re- 
mains were sent home and interred in the family burying 
ground in Portsmouth's beautiful cemetery. 

The Regiment of which he had been a member passed 
resolutions highly honorable to him as a soldier and an 
officer. So did the officers of the Division with which he 
was connected. They say: "His efficiency and energy 
as an officer, his social and genial disposition, his honor- 



70 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

able deportment, integrity and patriotism, made him a 
much-loved favorite in this command. The patriotism 
which caused him to leave West Point before graduating, 
to enter the service of his country and die thus early in 
life, affords an example of disinterested patriotism worthy 
of emulation."" This was signed by Brigadier General 
S. S. Fry. His class-mates at West Point passed compli- 
mentary resolutions. They say that by his " gentlemanly 
bearing, and many social qualities, he had won the respect 
of all his companions;" and that "had he lived, he would 
have made one of the brightest ornaments of his profes- 
sion.'' 

His class-mate and room-mate at West Point, in send- 
ing the resolutions of the class, and their determination to 
erect a monument to his memory, thus expresses himself: 
" I was his room-mate and intimate friend for a year, and 
during the whole of that time, I always found him high 
toned, honorable, and generous to a fault. I could not 
have loved a brother better than I loved him." Much 
more might be quoted from resolutions and letters, testi- 
fying to his high and honorable character, his integrity and 
patriotism, and fidelity to duty. 

We will close this imperfect sketch b}' a brief quota- 
tion from a letter written by his bereaved father to his 
class-mate at West Point, soon after his death. ■• Thus 
passed from earth, I hope and trust to heaven, a true pa- 
triot, a true friend, and a beloved son, one that thought 
more of his country than he did of his own life." 



JOHN R. BLAKELY. 71 



JOHN R. BLAKELY. 

Preparatory Student. 

John R. Blakely was the second son of Rev. Abram 
Blakely, and was born at Wilkesville, Ohio. 

He entered the Preparatory Department of Marietta 
College, in the Fall of 1859, remaining part of the year. 
He enlisted in Company A, Ninth New York Heavy 
Artillery, at the same time with his brother Charles, August 
2d, 1862, and served with his regiment for a considerable 
time in the defenses of Washington. In the great Vir- 
ginia campaign of General Grant, in 1864, this regiment 
was early engaged, and John Blakely fell in battle. May 
31st, at Cold Harbor, the day on which his brother was 
carried to the grave in the far West. 

This double bereavement was too great a shock for 
the venerable father, who soon followed his two sons to 
join them in that rest for which he had prepared- them. 
Such were the sacrifices by which our country was saved. 



72 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



JOSEPH DANA CLAKK. 

Preparatory Student. 

Joseph Dana Clark, son of Colonel Melvin Clark, 
and Dorcas Dana Clark, was born at Malta, Ohio, October 
14th, 1846. His father, the gallant Colonel of the Thirty- 
sixth Ohio, fell at the head of his regiment at the battle of 
Antietam. 

Joseph was brought up at Marietta, Ohio, which was- 
the home of his father after 1852. He was the object of | 
constant and intelligent care, and no pains was spared in I 
his education. Passing through the public schools, he en- 
tered the Preparatory Department of the College in 1861, 
and remained there until May, 1864, nearly completing 
his preparation for the Freshman Class. 

At this time came the call for thirty thousand men 
from Ohio, for a hundred days, through the bold plan ol 
Governor Brough. Clark was a boy of seventeen, slender 
in body, delicate in health, and unused to toil or hardship. 
But he had seen, a few months before, the mangled body 
of his father brought home from the field, and he now felt 
that here was an opportunity and a call to him to do some- 
thing toward supplying the place which the cannon ol 
Antietam had made vacant. Such was his eagerness to 
enlist that his mother could not withhold her consent, and 
he was enrolled May 7th, 1864, in Company A (Capt. 
S. S. Knowles), One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio 
National Guard (Col. T. W. Moore). 

He started. May 23d, for the field with his regiment, 
which was employed on guard duty for a few days at 
Harper's Ferr}^, and other points on the Baltimore & Ohio 



JOSEPH DANA CLARK. 73 

Railroad, and then sent to the front at Bermuda Hundred, 
Va. After serving here for a few days in the intrench- 
ments under General Butler, his company, with six others, 
was ordered to City Point, starting June i6th. At that point 
this school-bo}' of seventeen endured manfully the dangers 
and hardships of war during the summer heat of the James 
River. On the 9th of August, while on guard duty, guard- 
ing government stores and ammunition, he was instantly 
killed by the explosion of an ordnance boat, and the con- 
sequent fall of the building in which he was posted. 

His body lies buried in Mound Cemetery, Marietta, 
Ohio, by the side of that of his honored father. 

Two facts may be mentioned, illustrating the charac- 
ter of young Clark: 

When he made up his mind that he ought to enlist, 
he first Went to Belpre where his mother resided after the 
death of Colonel Clark, to obtain her consent. In his 
earnestness he said: " Mother, I hope you will let me go, 
for I feel that I should despise myself if this war, in which 
father lost his life, closes, and I do not take any part in it." 
His mother afterwards said that his plea had too much 
patriotism in it to be refused. When his regiment started 
from Marietta for the field, the train was thrown from 
an embankment and wrecked five miles above Belpre, kill- 
ing several men and wounding more. The accident caused 
much delay, and produced great excitement in the neigh- 
boring towns, as so many had friends on the train. Clark 
knowing that his mother would hear a rumor of the acci- 
dent, walked all the way to Belpre to let her know that he 
was safe. These incidents show how the patriotism which 
drew the 3'outh to the field of danger, went hand in hand 
with filial duty and affection. He was a christian boy who 
had learned to live as under the eye of God, and he went 
to his death under the inspiration of duty. 



74 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



Lieutenaut Colonel WILLIAM HENEY EIFOET. 

Preparatory Student. 

WiLJLiAM Henry Eifort was a son of Sebastian 
Eifort, Esq., and Rachel Jackson Eifort, of Hunnewell, 
Kentucky. 

He was born at Jackson Furnace, Jackson County, 
Ohio, December 26th, 1842. He was brought up in Scioto 
County, Ohio, where his father was engaged in the manu- 
facture of iron. 

In his thirteenth year his father moved to Carter 
County, Kentuck}^, where he built Boone Furnace. Here 
his son Henry was engaged as clerk and storekeeper, with 
the exception of tiie time spent in school. In the Spring 
of 1859, he came to Marietta, and entered the Preparatory 
Department. He was distinguished here for a peculiarl}' 
bold and generous spirit, impulsive and frank in a high 
degree. 

At the breaking out of the war he found himself in a 
state which assumed the attitude of neutrality, but he was 
too straight- forward and too spirited a youth to be beguiled 
into any imaginary path between lo3^alt3^ and disloyalty. 
He promptly espoused the cause of the Government, and 
with two or three friends of like spirit, attempted to raise 
volunteers for the Union Army. It was a perilous under- 
taking; they found that "neutrality" meant war upon all 
who should dare to rally men to the old flag on the soil of 
Kentucky. Their lives were threatened, and they were 
targets for the rifle and revolver as they rode through the 



LIEUTENANT COLONEL W. H. EIFORT. 75 

country. But Eifort was one of those bold spirits who seem 
insensible to tear. Danger only roused him to his best. He 
and his friend raised a company, which, on its organiza- 
tion, chose him first Lieutenant, his friend Thomas being 
made Captain. At this time Lieutenant Eifort was but 
eighteen years of age. The company could not camp on 
neutral soil, but crossed to Indiana to Camp Joe Holt, 
where the}' were mustered into the United States service, 
July 1 8th, 1 86 1. Enlisting hrst as Infantr}-, they were in- 
vited to change their organization, which the}' did, forming 
a company of the Second Kentucky Cavalrv. The Regi- 
ment was under Sherman in his first campaign .in Ken- 
tucky, in the Fall of i86i, and served in the Army of the 
Cumberland through the war. It fought many battles, and 
almost numberless skirmishes. 

Everywhere Eifort was conspicuous for his courage, 
continually getting in advance of his men when there was 
an enemy in front. He attempted exploits which were al- 
most unheard of even in cavalry charges; not from vanity 
or ambition, nor as the result of stimulants, being strictly 
temperate in his habits. He never seemed to appreciate 
his own personal danger, but fixing his eye on the end to 
be reached, forgot himself till success was assured. 

An instance of his courage is given just before the 
battle of Shiloh, in the Spring of 1862. He with a de- 
tachment of thirty men was sent forward on the pike near 
Franklin, Tennessee, when the rebels in their retreat were 
burning bridges behind them. Coming in sight of a bridge 
which they had just fired and fled from, Eifort spurred on 
ahead of his men, blind to danger or impossibility, plunged 
into the smoke and flames with his thirty men after him, 
crossed it as by a miracle, and suddenly appeared among 
the astonished rebel pickets, w^hom he made prisoners. In 



76 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

a few moments after the crossing the bridge was a mass 
of fire. 

Eifort rose steadily through the grades of promotion, 
being made Captain, April 26th, 1862; Major, December 
14th, 1863; and Lieutenant Colonel, June 22d, 1864, when 
he was but twenty-two years old. His extreme daring 
cost him his life. This occurred in a skirmish at Triune, 
a small village between Murfreesboro and Franklin, Tenn., 
September 4th, 1864. 

In this engagement his zeal and daring led him many 
yards in advance of his men, when he was mortally 
wounded, living a few hours, and sending home the mes- 
sage that " he had died as a soldier ought," that " he was 
the first man in, and the last man out of the charge." 

His body is buried at Portsmouth, Ohio, by the side 
of his grandfather, who was for fifteen years a commis- 
sioned officer in the French and German wars of Napoleon. 



PART III. 
MILITARY RECORD 



— O F T H K ■ 



ALUMNI, UNDERGRADUATES AND PREPARATORY STUDENTS OF 
MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



ALUMNI. 



1842. 

Ebenezer B. Andrews, 

Major, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Colonel, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

J. Dexter Cotton, 
Surgeon, gad Ohio Infantry. 

Frederick B. Homes, 
Missouri Infantry. 

Samuel H. Lee, 

Assistant Surgeon, 80th Ohio Infantry. 

Contract Surgeon. 

Surgeon, 143d Ohio. 



1845. 

Jonas P. Safford, 
Surgeon, 73d Ohio Infantry. 

Willard Warner, 

Major, 76th Ohio Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 76th Ohio Infantry. 

Colonel, 180th Ohio Infantry. 

Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. V. 

Brevet Major General, U. S. V. 

1846. 

William T. Day, 
Assistant Surgeon, 91st Illinois Infantry. 

J. Henry Hudnall, 

Private, Richmond Howitzer Battalion, C. S. A. 

Sergeant, Richmond Howitzer Battalion, C. S. A. 

Second Lieutenant, Richmond Howitzer Battalion, C. S. A. 

First Lieutenant, Richmond Howitzer Battalion, C. S. A. 

Captain, Richmond Howitzer Battalion, C. S. A. 



80 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



1847. 

Henry Fitz Hugh, 
C. S. A. 



1848. 

Marshall T. Nelson, 
Private, 2d Battalion Cavalry, O. N. G. 
Second Lieutenant, 2d Battalion Cavalry, O. N. G. 



1849. 

Alfred S. Patrick, 

Private, 22d Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 

Assistant Surgeon, 2 2d Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 

Surgeon, 22d Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 



I8S0. 

Joseph W. Dunn, 
C. S. A. 

Edward W. Huntington, 
Captain, loth Louisiana Infantry, C. S. A. 

Francis Z. Rossiter, 
Chaplain, 39th Ohio Infantry. 



18SI. 

Edward H, Allen, 
Captain, 73d Ohio Infantry. 

Theodore S. Case, 

Private, 25th Missouri Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 25th Missouri Infantry. 

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. V. 

Colonel and Quartermaster General of Missouri. 



1853. 

Orville M. Hundley, 
C. S. A. 

Benjamin F. Stone, 

Private, ;73d Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 73d Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 73d Ohio Infantry. 



MILITARY RECORD. 81 



*I,A\vRENCE Waldo, 

First Lieutenant, and Adjutant, 83d Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 83d Ohio Infantry. 

* Died of wounds, April 25th, 1864, 

1S54. 

Lewis H. Gciodwin, 

Captain, 47th Indiana Infantry. 

Major, 47th Indiana Infantry. 

Alfred T. Goshorn, 
Captain, 137th Ohio Infantry. 

Charles D. Mansfield, 
Acting Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N. 

Henrv Kirke Smith, 
U. S. N. 



1855. 

Charles C. Goddard, 
Captain, 17th Infantry, U. S. A. 



1850. 

Benjamin U. Fearing, 

Private, 2d Ohio Infantry. 

Acting Adjutant, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Major, 77th Ohio Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

Colonel, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. V. 

William A. Griffin, 
Captain, C. S. A. 

J. Mills Kkndrick, 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 33d Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, and Assistant Adjutant General, Volunteers. 



1867. 

Joseph Barker, 
Private, 148th Ohio National Guard. 

Temple Cuiler, 
Chaplain, 9th Maine Infantry. 



82 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



MOUNTFORD S. StOKELY, 

Captain, ist West Virginia Infantry. 

Andrew W. Williamson, 

Sergeant, 5th Minnesota Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, 71st U. S. Colored Infantry. 



18S8. 

William H. Storrs, 
Private, 77th Ohio Infantry. 



1859. 

Henry M. Bos\vorth, 

Private, 13th Ohio Infantry. 

Leader of the Band, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Thomas J. Cochran, 

Private, ist Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 77th Ohio Infantry. 

GusTAvus S. Franklin, 

Assistant Surgeon, U. S. N. 

Passed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. N. 

'!= Theodore E. Greenwood, 
Captain and Assistant Adjutant General, Volunteers. 

' Died, September 27th, 1862. 

Douglas Putnam, Jr., 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

Major, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, pad Ohio Infantry. 



I860. 

^Timothy L. CfWDiT, 

Private ist Ohio Cavalry. 

Second Lieutenant, ist Ohio Cavalry. 

Killed December 31st, 1862. 

RuFus R. Dawes, 

Captain, 6th Wisconsin Infantry. 

Major, 6th Wisconsin Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 6th Wisconsin Infantry. 

Colonel, 6th Wisconsin Infantry. 

Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. V. 



MILITARY RECORD. 88 



John C. Garrison, 

Private, loth Kentucky Infantry. 

Commissary Sergeant, loth Kentucky Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 38th Kentucky Infantry. 

R. Marshall Nf.wport, 

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. V. 

Brevet Colonel and Chief Quartermaster, Baltimore. 

Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. V. 

Bernard V. H. Safford, 
Private Ohio Infantry. 



1861. 

Ephraim C. Dawes, 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 53d Ohio Infantry. 

Major, 53d Ohio Infantry. 

Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. V. 

William S. Friesner, 

Private, 17 th Ohio Infantry. 

Private, 58th Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, 58th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 58th Ohio Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 58th Ohio Infantry. 

Henry H. Kendrick, 
Second Lieutenant, 13th Ohio Infantry. 

Frank, P. Luxz, 
Private, 7th Ohio Independent Cavalry Company. 

Edwin W. Newton, 
Sergeant, 92d Illinois Infantry. 

Daniel W. Washburn. 

Second Lieutenant, 4th New York Heavy Artillery. 

Captain, 4th New York Heavy Artillery, 

Major, 4th New York Heavy Artillery. 

*W. Beale Whittlesey, 

Second Lieutenant, pad Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, pad Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, pad Ohio Infantry. 

■ Killed November 26th, 1863. 



84 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 

1862. 

Edward S. Aleshire, 

First Lieutenant, 87 th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Peter L. Conniffe, 
Private, i8th Ohio Infantry. 

William H. Fleek, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

JosiAH H. Jenkins, 
Second Lieutenant, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Isaac H. Johnson, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

William J. Lee, 
Private, 11 6th Ohio Infantry. 
Second Lieutenant, ii6th Ohio Infantry. 
First Lieutenant and Adjutant, ii6th Ohio Infantry. 

* George B, Turner, 

Orderly Sergeant, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, pad Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, pad Ohio Infantry. 

* Died from wounds, December, ist, 1863. 

L. Halsev Williams, 
Private, Battery "F," Independent Pennsylvania Artillery. 



1S63. 

Chandler B. Beach. 
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. V. 

George W, Lemert, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry, 

George A. Little, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Charles H. Newton, 
Second Lieutenant, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 
First Lieutenant, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

* Edwin B. North. 

Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 84th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

*Died April 7th, 1864. 



MILITARY RECORD. 85 

Elam D. Parker, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry, 

Thomas M. Sechler, 

Second Lieutenant, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

First Lieutenant, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Frederick C. Woodruff, 

Sergeant, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Sergeant Major, gad Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 119th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

David H. Zeigler, 
Acting Master's Mate, U. S. N. 

William H. Evans, 
Sergeant, Pennsylvania Infantry. 



lS(i4. 

George S. Atkinson, 
Private, 135th Ohio Infantry. 

William A. Bosworth, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 
Private, 140th Ohio Infantry. 

Edwin C. Goshorn, 
Private, 137th Ohio Infantry. 

Samuel N. Maxwell, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Samuel B. Shipman, 
Private, 148th Ohio National Guard. 
Hospital Steward, 148th Ohio National Guard. 

George C. Tenney, 

Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Corporal, 148th Ohio National Guard. 



1865. 

Ogden Henderson. 
Private, 148th Ohio National Guard. 

Andrew L. Monett, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 



86 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR, 



1866. 

Charles N. Nye, 

Private, 85th Ohio Infantry. 

First Sergeant, 148th Ohio National Guard. 



David P. Pratt, 

Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Corporal, 140th Ohio Infantry. 



1867. 

George R, Gear. 
Private, 39th Ohio Infantry. 
Sergeant, 39th Ohio Infantry. 



1868. 

Theodore D. Dale, 
Private, 148th Ohio National Guard. 



1869. 

Martin R. Andrews, 

Private, 62d Ohio National Guard. 

Private Signal Corps. 

Jonas M. Fuller, 
Private, 85th Ohio Infantry. 

Uriah Hoyt. 

Private, i8th Ohio Infantry. 

Sergeant, 11 6th Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, i86th Ohio Infantry. 

James M. Rees, 
Private, 7th Ohio Infantry. 

John Tenney, 

Musician, i8th Ohio Infantry. 

Musician, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Drum Major, 36th Ohio Infantry. 



1871. 

Daniel W. Dye, 
First Lieutenant, ist Ohio Cavalry. 



MILITARY RECORD. 87 



1872. 

Edward P. Tenny, 
Musician, 148th Ohio National Guard. 



tS7B. 

Christain Mowery, 
Private, nth West Virginia Infantry. 



UN DERGRADUATES. 



IS46. 

John Fanning, 

First Lieutenant, loth Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, loth Ohio Infantry. 

William S. Newt(3n, 

Assistant Surgeon, 91st Ohio Infantry. 

Surgeon, 91st Ohio Infantry. 

Surgeon, 193d Ohio Infantry. 



1849. 

John Q. Gibson, 
Chaplain, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

1851. 

William A. S. Beasley, 

Louis W. Brown, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 



1853. 

George G. Lewis, 
Captain, C. S. A. 

John G. Newman, 

Captain, 36th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 

Major and Commissary of Subsistence, C. S. A. 

Fredrick D. Sturges, 
First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 42d Ohio. 



88 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



18S3. 

James Buckingham, 
Private, 159th Ohio Infantry. 

George W. Devin, 

Private, i8th Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 47th Iowa Infantry. 



1854. 

Theodore G. Field, 

Sergeant, i8th Ohio Infantry. 

Sergeant, ist West Virginia Artillery. 

Second Lieutenant, ist West Virginia Artillery. 

* Edwin Keyes, 
Captain, 11 6th Ohio Infantry. 

'Wounded July igth, died August i8th, 1864. 



1855. 

Warden Wheeler, 
First Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster, 8th Ohio Cavalry. 



1866. 

Douglas A. Gilbert, 
Private, 148th Ohio Infantry. 



1857. 

William H. Dickerson, 
Assistant Surgeon. C. S. A. 

Ebenezer Pearce, 
Private, 77 th Ohio Infantry. 

George T. Perkins, 

Private, 19th Ohio Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 19th Ohio Infantry. 

Major, 105th Ohio Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 105th Ohio Infantry. 

Colonel, 105th Ohio Infantry. 

Samuel H. Putnam, 

Private, ist Ohio Cavalry. 

Sergeant, ist Ohio Cavalry. • 

Second Lieutenant, ist Ohio Cavalry. 

First Lieutenant, ist Ohio Cavalry. 



MILITARY RECORD. 89 



Samuel C. Skinner, 
Private, i8th Ohio Infantry, 



George H. Devol, 

Private, 38th Indiana Infantry. 

Sergeant-Major, 38th Indiana Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 38th Indiana Infantry. 

Joseph Dvak, 
Private, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Fki.ix G. McConihay, 

Private, 45th Alabama Infantry, C. S. A. 

Second Lieutenant, 45th BattaHon, Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. 

R. T. McEldowney, 

Private, 27th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 

Second Lieutenant, 27th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 

First Lieutenant, 27th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 

Captain, 27th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. 



IS60. 

A. P. Frame, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

L). I). Johnson, 

Major, 14th West Virginia Infantry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 14th West \'irginia Infantry. 

Colonel, 14th West Virginia Infantry. 



1861. 

Frank H. Bosworth, 

Private, 17th Ohio Infantry. 

Quartermaster Sergeant, 148th Ohio National Guard. 



isva. 

* Charles A. Blakely, 

Private, 9th New York Artillery. 

'Died, May 30th, 1864. 

D. Perkins Bosworth, Jr.. 

Acting Master's Mate, U. S. N. 

Acting Ensign, U. S, N. 



90 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



* Milton K. Bosworth, 
Sergeant, 53CI Ohio Infantry. 
Quartermaster Sergeant, 53rd Ohio Infantry. 

•'Died from wounds, March gth, 1863. 

Daniel W. Hoffman, 

Captain, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Major, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Elijah S. McCarty, 
Hospital Steward, 77th Ohio Infantry. 

Andrew L. Ruffner, 
Sergeant Major, 8th Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. 

William B. Stephenson, 

Sergeant Major, 53d Ohio Infantry, 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 53rd Ohio Infantry. 



1863. 

* Charles A. Holden, 
Private, ist West Virginia Light Artillery. 

'^'Died, D cember yth, 1862. 

William Holden, 

Private, i8th Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 2d West Virginia Cavalry. 

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. V. 

Alexander B. Riggs, 
Private, Knapp's Battalion Pennsylvania Cavalry. 
Corporal, Knapp's Battalion Pennsylvania Cavalry. 

Milton R. Scott, 
Private, 76th Ohio Infantry. 

J. Weslev Sniffen, 
Sergeant, 7th Ohio Cavalry. 

E. P. Sturges, 

Second Lieutenant, ist Ohio Light Artillery. 

First Lieutenant, ist Ohio Light Artillery. 

Brevet Captain, U. S. V. 

Brevet Major, U. S. V. 

"^Theodore Tupper, 
Sergeant, 40th Illinois Infantry. 

-Killed, April 6th, 1862. 



MILITARY RECORD. 91 



1864. 

''= Du Fav Howman, 
Surgeon's Steward, U. S. N. 

'Died, August — , 1864. 

Adolphus B. Frame, 

Second Lieutenant, ii6th()hio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, i:6th(])hio Infantry. 

Captain, ii6th Ohio Infantry. 

First Ueutenant and Adjutant, i86tli Ohio Infantry, 

* Jasper S. Lauiihlin, 
Private, ySth Ohio Infantry. 

^'Died, May i6th, 1864. 

Charles C. Martin, 

Private, 46tli Battahon ^'irginia Ca\alry, C. S. A. 

Second Lieutenant, 26th Virginia Cavalrw C. S. A. 

Joseph McN. Murray, 
Private, 33d Ohio Infantry. 

David E. Putnam, 

Private, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

First Sergeant, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

Sergeant Major, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 92d Ohio Infantry. 

George E. Rosseter, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Charles P. Wh.son, 
Private, Sytli Ohio Infantry. 



lS4i5. 

Samuel M. Chester, 
Private, 137th Ohio Infantry. 

* Charles B. Gates, 
First Lieutenant, 148th Ohio National Guard. 

*Died, May 31st 1864. 

Edward C. Nve, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 
Acting Master's Mate, U. S. X. 
Acting Ensign, U. S. N. 

Warren C. Rose, 
Sergeant, 114th Ohio Infantry. 



92 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



1867. 

William Pfieffer, 

Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Private, 39th Ohio Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 135th U. S. Colored Infantry. 

Samuel P. Atkinson, 
Corporal, 135th Ohio. 

Douglas P. Putnam, 
Private, 92d Ohio Infantry. 



1868. 

Stephen O. Bryant, 

Private, 20th Michigan Infantry. 

Corporal, 20th Michigan Infantry. 

Sergeant, 20th Michigan Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 20th Michigan Infantry. 



PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 



1843. 

Charles Jones, 
First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, 2d West Virginia Cavalry. 



1844. 

Laban T. Moore, 
Colonel, 14th Kentucky Infantry. 



1S45. 

A. H. Browning, 
Second Lieutenant, 148th Ohio National Guard. 

Marcus A. Westcott, 
Captain, 6th Ohio Infantry. 



1846. 

Samuel Hart, 

Surgeon, 75th Ohio Infantry. 

Assistant Surgeon, U. S. V. 

Surgeon, U. S. V. 

Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. 



MILITARY RECORD, 03 



18SO. 

Eli Barnum, 

First Sergeant, 57th Illinois Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 57th Illinois Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, 57th Illinois Infantry. 

L. G. Evans, 
Private, 49th Ohio Infantry. 



1853. 

W. C. Kimball, 
Sergeant, 4th Ohio Infantry. 
First Lieutenant, 4th Ohio Infantry. 
Captain and Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. V. 

Nelson L. Lutz, 

First Lieutenant, 13th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 27th Ohio Infantry. 

Reuben L. Nye, 

Private, 17th Ohio Infantry. 

Second Lieutenant, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

John W. Odiorne. 
Private, ist California Infantry. 



1854. 

Charles F. Armstrong, 
Private, 39th Ohio Infantry. 

Benjamin A. Blandy, 
First Lieutenant, 87 th Ohio Infantry. 

1856. 

Shipman Holden, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

William E. McKim. 

Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. V. 

Assistant Surgeon, 125th Ohio Infantry. 

Surgeon, 125th Ohio Infantry. 



1866. 

Thomas S. Tucker, 
First Lieutenant, ist New Mexico. 



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94 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



1857. 

Arthur B. Chapin, 

Private, ist Ohio Cavalry. 

* Lewis R. Green, 

Captain, 25th Ohio Infantry. 

Died, September 5th, 1862. 



1S58. 

Meredith P. Ruffner, 
Lieutenant, 3d Virginia State Line Cavalry, C. S. A. 



1859. 

* William H. Eifort, 

First Lieutenant, 2d Kentucky Cavalry. 

Captain, 2d Kentucky Cavalry. 

Major, 2d Kentucky Cavalry. 

Lieutenant Colonel, 2d Kentucky Cavalry. 

Killed, September 4th, 1864. 

W. James Harte, 

Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain's Clerk, U. S. N. 

Hiram B. Iams, 

Private, ist Ohio Artillery. 

Orderly Sergeant, ist Ohio Artillery. 

Second Lieutenant, ist Ohio Artillery. 

Asa B. Isham, 

Private, 7th Michigan Cavalry. 

Sergeant, 7th Michigan Cavalry. 

First Lieutenant, 7th Michigan Cavalry. 

Jewett Palmer, Jr., 

Private, 1 8th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Major, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

Frank B. Tooihaker, 
Private, 7th Ohio Cavalry. 

I860. 

*JoHN R. Blakely, 
Private, 9th New York Artillery. 

''Killed, May 31st, 1864. 



MILITARY RECORD. 95 



T. Collins Fitch, 

Private, 6th Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 121st Ohio Infantry, 

Captain, 121st Ohio Infantry. 

James S. Judd, 
Private, 36th Ohio Infantry. 

C. Augustus McKim, 
Private, ist West Virginia Cavalry. 



1861. 

C. W. Greene, 

Second Lieutenant, 27th Ohio Infantry. 

First Lieutenant, 27th Ohio Infantry. 

Captain, 27th Ohio Infantry. 

M. C. Keenan, 

Private, 87th Ohio Infantry. 
First Sergeant, 173d Ohio Infantry. 

Parkhurst T. Martin, 
Private, 14th lUinois Infantry. 
Captain 14th Illinois Infantry. 

Allen A. Staats, 
Private, 98th Ohio Infantry. 

* Thomas W. Terrv, 

Private, ist Ohio Infantry. 

Private, ist Ohio Heavy Artillery. 

Second Lieutenant, First Ohio Heavy Artillery. 



*Died, March 3d, 18 



1803. 

Charles F. Regnier, 
Private, 87th Ohio Infantry, 



1864. 

*Joseph D. Clark. 
Private, 148th Ohio National Guard. 

'Killed, August 9th, 1864. 

186S. 

Frank L. Judd, 
Private, 77th Ohio Infantry. 

H. B. Murray, 
Private, 140th Ohio Infantry. 



96 MARIETTA COLLEGE IN THE WAR. 



SUMMARY. 



Number of Alumni, 1838-69, inclusive, . - . ^ii 

Died, ..-.----- 51 

Over and under military age, ----- 16 67 



Number living at beginning of war liable to military duty, 244 

Number in the war, (including 3 graduating subsequent to 1869) 87 

Percentage, - - - - - - - - - 35 10 

Alumni in the war, .-..-.- 87 

Undergraduates in the war, 56 

Preparatory Students in the war, ----- 38 

Total, - 181 












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